Re: [PATCH] early console registration

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>]

On Wednesday, May 19, 2004 9:17 pm, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 14 May 2004 14:25:59 -0700, Jesse Barnes
> >>>>> <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> said:
>
>   Jesse> Is this reasonable?  I've tested it on a couple of machines
>   Jesse> here and it works well.  It's really useful for debugging
>   Jesse> setup_arch problems.
>
> I don't like the #ifdef's very much, but I suppose I can live with
> them in this case.  IIRC, Bjorn also has been working on some
> early-printk changes so I'd be interested in his opinion.

Yeah, me neither, but I like the alternative even less--ia64_platform_is 
and .weak symbols or something.  I *think* this approach will work for Bjorn 
too (and any other driver that's ok with being called early), but it would be 
nice to hear it. :)

Thanks,
Jesse