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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@dot.cygnus.com>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: alpha 2.4.11-pre3: delay disabling early boot messages
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 08:12:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17968.1002265943@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011004183415.A6357@dot.cygnus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011004183415.A6357@dot.cygnus.com>


rth@dot.cygnus.com said:
> Alpha has this nice way to output console messages via SRM callbacks
> which we can enable immediately on bootup, and so get debugging output
> before console_init.  This patch delays when we turn that off, and so
> narrows the window in which we can't get debug output. 

Putting it in time_init() because we happen to know that time_init() is the 
last thing called from init/main.c before console_init() is a bit of a 
hack :)

I've wanted this on other platforms too - couldn't we add an 
unregister_boot_console() to console_init() instead?

--
dwmw2



  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-05  7:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-05  1:34 alpha 2.4.11-pre3: delay disabling early boot messages Richard Henderson
2001-10-05  7:12 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-10-05 21:10   ` Richard Henderson

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