From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Hicks Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 15:08:54 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] [PATCH] 2.5 - No early printk for GENERIC Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org David, Here is a patch to the ia64 Kconfig file that disables the EARLY_PRINTK menu option if a GENERIC kernel is selected. As we discussed last week, EARLY_PRINTK doesn't work for GENERIC kernels anymore because readb/readl are now machvecs. thanks mh -- Wild Open Source Inc. mort@wildopensource.com # This is a BitKeeper generated patch for the following project: # Project Name: Linux kernel tree # This patch format is intended for GNU patch command version 2.5 or higher. # This patch includes the following deltas: # ChangeSet 1.1124 -> 1.1125 # arch/ia64/Kconfig 1.25 -> 1.26 # # The following is the BitKeeper ChangeSet Log # -------------------------------------------- # 03/06/09 mort@green.i.bork.org 1.1125 # Early printk cannot be used for Generic kernels because # it uses readb/readl, which are now machvecs and are # uninitialized when early printk is called very early # in the boot. # -------------------------------------------- # diff -Nru a/arch/ia64/Kconfig b/arch/ia64/Kconfig --- a/arch/ia64/Kconfig Mon Jun 9 11:06:30 2003 +++ b/arch/ia64/Kconfig Mon Jun 9 11:06:30 2003 @@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ config IA64_EARLY_PRINTK bool "Early printk support" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64_GENERIC help Selecting this option uses the VGA screen or serial console for printk() output before the consoles are initialised. It is useful