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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] x86/earlyprintk: setup earlyprintk as early as possible
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Hello Andy,

Thank you for feedback. Will fix and resend.

2015-05-11 13:27 GMT+06:00 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>:
> On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 01:13 +0600, Alexander Kuleshov wrote:
>> As setup_early_printk passed to the early_param, it will be usable only after
>> 'parse_early_param' function will be called from the 'setup_arch'. So we have
>> earlyprintk during early boot and decompression. Next point after decompression
>> of the kernel where we can use early_printk is after call of the
>> 'parse_early_param'.
>
> From this description is hard to understand what is rationale of the
> proposed changes. Can you rephrase it?
>
>>
>> These patchset provides two patches where:
>>
>> 1. Move handling of the builtin command line to the separate function
>> from the setup_arch. Now we can call it from the arch/x86/kernel/head{32,64}.c,
>> and find 'earlyprintk' kernel command line paramter there.
>>
>> 2. Provide setup_serial_console function to setup serial earlyprintk in the
>> arch/x86/kernel/head{32,64}.c
>>
>> Alexander Kuleshov (2):
>> x86/setup: update boot_command_line with builtin_cmdline in separate
>> function
>> x86/earlyprintk: setup earlyprintk as early as possible
>>
>> arch/x86/include/asm/serial.h | 2 ++
>> arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h | 3 ++-
>> arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> arch/x86/kernel/head32.c | 6 ++++++
>> arch/x86/kernel/head64.c | 7 +++++++
>> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 28 +++++++++++++++-------------
>> 6 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>
>
>
> --
> Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
> Intel Finland Oy
>



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