From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Barnes Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:03:55 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] early console registration Message-Id: <200405200903.55693.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> List-Id: References: <200405141425.59867.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <200405141425.59867.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday, May 19, 2004 9:17 pm, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, 14 May 2004 14:25:59 -0700, Jesse Barnes > >>>>> 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