From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] early printk for x86
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:52:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021115035225.GQ22031@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021115044300.C20764@wotan.suse.de>
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.
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-15 3:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-14 19:42 [PATCH] early printk for x86 Dave Hansen
2002-11-14 19:55 ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-14 20:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-14 22:50 ` Dave Hansen
2002-11-15 3:43 ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-15 3:52 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-11-15 4:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-11-14 21:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-14 23:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-18 15:15 ` David Woodhouse
2002-11-18 15:17 ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-18 15:39 ` David Woodhouse
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[not found] ` <20021115044300.C20764@wotan.suse.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <ar1sdm$gfe$1@cesium.transmeta.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-11-15 4:31 ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-15 4:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
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