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Olof Johansson wrote:

> On some IBM machines the progress will also print the status on the hardware
> maintenance console's status line for the partition/machine in question.

Ah, yes, the HMC.

Looking at the code, there doesn't appear to be much rhyme or reason as to when 
ppc_md.progress() is called, but it is called from quite a few files.

Is there any reason why we can't just re-route printk() to HMC?

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale