Messages in this thread |  | | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [DOC] Debugging early kernel hangs | Date | Mon, 25 Sep 2000 07:13:28 +0100 (BST) |
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James Sutherland writes: > On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Russell King wrote: > > And I'll try to make the point a second time that everything does not have > > a character-based screen to write to. > > So what? For platforms which have a nice easy way to stick ASCII on > screen, use this. For other platforms, find some other approach - if you > have a nice easy serial port handy, try feeding the characters there.
So what? It shouldn't be called "VIDEO_CHAR" then - calling it that describes ONE implementation only, not what it is actually doing. Something more like DEBUGCH(char) or whatever is a better choice because it describes what the intention of it is, rather than the implementation. _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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