Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:52:25 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] early printk for x86 |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: >>> VGA and serial are certainly not hammer+ia32-specific. Make the generic >>> parts generic... the arch-specific components would need to change >>> early-foo base addresses perhaps, but otherwise, it's pretty generic.
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:50:43PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: >> Take 2. >> - Move the x86_64 early_printk.c into kernel/ >> - move some of the basic defines into linux/early_printk.h and >> asm-{i386,x86_64}/early_printk.h >> - run the setup in start_kernel() before setup_arch()
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:43:00AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > That's overkill. Most architectures have an early_printk equivalent in > firmware. Only i386 and x86-64 are not lucky enough to have one > that is usable from the CPU mode linux uses.
Perhaps s/early_printk/prom_printf/ would pick up a few arches for free.
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