From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:08:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:08:27 -0500 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237]:47101 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:08:27 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 13/07/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: <3DD3FCB3.40506@us.ibm.com> References: <3DD3FCB3.40506@us.ibm.com> To: Dave Hansen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] early printk for x86 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:15:23 +0000 Message-ID: <14814.1037632523@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org haveblue@us.ibm.com said: > 1. I copied the x86_64 early printk support for plain x86. Is > anyone opposed to me sending this on to Linus? Why is it necessary to reimplement serial console for each arch rather than just registering the generic serial console as early as possible from arch-specific code? There's no _reason_ to wait for console_init(), for most consoles. -- dwmw2