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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Synthesize TLB refill handler at runtime
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On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 10:39:56PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> > It's so easy to implement with serial console.  Best thing since sliced
> > bread :-)
> 
>  Yep, and some systems have an appropriate console output callback in the 
> firmware making it trivial.

Which unfortunately is becoming unusable fairly soon on many systems.
IP27: ARC is dead after the first TLB flush.  IP22: dead after the
external L2 controller was enabled etc.  On average I'm less than
pleased with firmware usability even for simple stuff such as printing ...

  Ralf