I have rewritten most of the console handling for 2.1.x especially for
multiple auxilary console. A printer console is very easy to add, even
with modules etc. It's all configurable from the boot command line.
It even falls back to using /dev/ttyS0 as system console if a VGA card
cannot be detected in the system, etc.
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be> has integrated
the patches into Linux/PPC and Linux/m68k. I hope he can convice David
and/or Linus to integrate this stuff into the standard kernel. I've
been maintaining this stuff for years now :)
Mike.
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