diff -Nru a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
--- a/kernel/printk.c	Tue Jun 17 14:47:33 2003
+++ b/kernel/printk.c	Tue Jun 17 14:47:33 2003
@@ -784,6 +784,10 @@
 
 # endif /* CONFIG_IA64_EARLY_PRINTK_UART */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_IA64_EARLY_PRINTK_SGI_SN
+extern int sn_sal_console_out(const char *str, int len);
+#endif
+
 void early_printk(const char *str, size_t len)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_IA64_EARLY_PRINTK_UART
@@ -791,6 +795,9 @@
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_IA64_EARLY_PRINTK_VGA
 	early_printk_vga(str, len);
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_IA64_EARLY_PRINTK_SGI_SN
+ 	sn_sal_console_out(str, len);
 #endif
 }
 
diff -Nru a/arch/ia64/Kconfig b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
--- a/arch/ia64/Kconfig	Tue Jun 17 14:45:16 2003
+++ b/arch/ia64/Kconfig	Tue Jun 17 14:45:16 2003
@@ -863,6 +831,10 @@
 
 config IA64_EARLY_PRINTK_VGA
 	bool "Early printk on VGA"
+	depends on IA64_EARLY_PRINTK
+
+config IA64_EARLY_PRINTK_SGI_SN
+	bool "Early printk on SGI SN serial console"
 	depends on IA64_EARLY_PRINTK
 
 config DEBUG_SLAB