Boot Sequences and kprint.

[Erik Mouw]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 16:41:05 +1100, fejed wrote:
> I'm fairly new to kernal modification, and I was wondering if ansi
> escape seqences can be used with kprint and if not, what would the
> result of changing kprint to printf and adding stdio.h, or is kprint
> only to write to syslogd? I hop I've said that right.

Of course you can try to use ANSI escape sequences, but it is of no use:
printk() is used to write debug messages which eventually end up in a
logfile. No need to fancy up debug messages. Besides: you can't assume
that every terminal understands ANSI escape sequences.

And no: you can't use printf() because we are in kernel mode; printf() is
for user mode.


Erik

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