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Originally Posted by hawhill
knc1, are you sure about the console? Couldn't the kernel console by redirected to a virtual console (ttyN), just like on a desktop Linux? Well, I'm not sure if the kernel is compiled with support for that, but chances are nobody bothered to disable that.
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Yes, fairly sure.
Ah, no - the console driver is a very "stupid" driver.
(And it isn't re-directed from the first serial port on your desktop either.
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The virtual consoles are defined by inittab and use a much more sophisticated driver.
It can be re-directed to a "network console" - -
And I think the Amazon kernels have that enabled -
I have seen boot-up dmesg captures that show ip=0 .
(Which turns netconsole off.)
Geekmaster could probably tell us, if he ever got his "Kindle Wall" running.