Getting a video console on a RPi

[Peter Jeremy]

How do I configure a RPi to use the video console, instead of the serial
console, as the primary (high-level) console?  I'm running head r277291.

So far I've (unsuccessfully) tried the following in loader.conf:
console="vidconsole"
  Rejected because the only available console is "uboot".
hint.uart.0.flags="0"
  No effect that I can see.
hint.uart.0.disabled="1"
  uart0 is reported as disabled but is still the console.

There are boot_serial and boot_multi variables but they are all aimed
at forcing either a serial console or multi-console mode.  There
doesn't seem to be any way to get out of multi-console mode.

Looking at the dmesg and code, I have a nasty suspicion that the problem
is related to the line:
VT: init without driver.
(with a later 'VT: initialize with new VT driver "fb".' line).
I gather that, at the time cninit() is called, there's no driver attached
to VT so it eliminates itself as a potential console.

There's a vt_early_fb.c that sounds promising but it's only supported
on the Freescale i.MX51 and i.MX53.

Putting "kern.console=ttyv0" in /etc/sysctl.conf will flip the console
for normal operation but is too late for single-user mode or rc script
output.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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