Early printk is Gone....???

Early printk is Gone....???

[Peter Chubb]

If I clone David's 2.5 tree (or use Linus's tree, same difference)
CONFIG_IA64_EARLY_PRINTK is inoperative -- the code to do the work
just isn't in the tree.

As it's really useful to have this functionality, can it be added back
in, please?  Possibly somewhere in arch/ia64 so other architectures
don't have to see it (it used to be in kernel/printk)

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Re: Early printk is Gone....???

[Martin Hicks]

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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:43:33AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> 
> If I clone David's 2.5 tree (or use Linus's tree, same difference)
> CONFIG_IA64_EARLY_PRINTK is inoperative -- the code to do the work
> just isn't in the tree.

I just looked at the latest linux-ia64-2.5 bitkeeper tree and it appears
to be there.  Note that you cannot use EARLY_PRINTK with a Generic
kernel anymore.

mh

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Re: Early printk is Gone....???

[Peter Chubb]

>>>>> "Martin" = Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com> writes:

Martin> On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:43:33AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
>> If I clone David's 2.5 tree (or use Linus's tree, same difference)
>> CONFIG_IA64_EARLY_PRINTK is inoperative -- the code to do the work
>> just isn't in the tree.

Martin> I just looked at the latest linux-ia64-2.5 bitkeeper tree and
Martin> it appears to be there.  Note that you cannot use EARLY_PRINTK
Martin> with a Generic kernel anymore.

You're right, it is in David's tree, just not in the to-linus tree or
Linus's tree.  My bad.  Sorry...

Peter C

Re: Early printk is Gone....???

[Martin Hicks]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 09:01:45AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> >>>>> "Martin" = Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com> writes:
> 
> Martin> On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:43:33AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> >> If I clone David's 2.5 tree (or use Linus's tree, same difference)
> >> CONFIG_IA64_EARLY_PRINTK is inoperative -- the code to do the work
> >> just isn't in the tree.
> 
> Martin> I just looked at the latest linux-ia64-2.5 bitkeeper tree and
> Martin> it appears to be there.  Note that you cannot use EARLY_PRINTK
> Martin> with a Generic kernel anymore.
> 
> You're right, it is in David's tree, just not in the to-linus tree or
> Linus's tree.  My bad.  Sorry...

EARLY_PRINTK is really only for bringup.  It really don't expect that it
will ever be pushed to Linus.  The to-linus tree is really only for
David to stick changesets in for Linus to pull into the mainline kernel.
It does not compile, and doesn't have to.

mh

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Re: Early printk is Gone....???

[Peter Chubb]

>>>>> "Martin" = Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com> writes:


Martin> EARLY_PRINTK is really only for bringup.  It really don't
Martin> expect that it will ever be pushed to Linus.  The to-linus
Martin> tree is really only for David to stick changesets in for Linus
Martin> to pull into the mainline kernel.  It does not compile, and
Martin> doesn't have to.

I understand that; the issue I have is that CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK is
defined in Kconfig, but does nothing, because the code is not there.

Peter c

Re: Early printk is Gone....???

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 13:52:48 +1000, Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> said:

>>>>> "Martin" = Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com> writes:

  Martin> EARLY_PRINTK is really only for bringup.  It really don't
  Martin> expect that it will ever be pushed to Linus.  The to-linus
  Martin> tree is really only for David to stick changesets in for Linus
  Martin> to pull into the mainline kernel.  It does not compile, and
  Martin> doesn't have to.

  Peter> I understand that; the issue I have is that CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK is
  Peter> defined in Kconfig, but does nothing, because the code is not there.

That's a reasonable objection.  I'll try to remember to move the
EARLY_PRINTK config option into the linux-ia64-2.5 tree as well.

	--david