From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 03:12:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 03:12:07 -0400 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:63476 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 03:11:57 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: <20011004183415.A6357@dot.cygnus.com> In-Reply-To: <20011004183415.A6357@dot.cygnus.com> To: Richard Henderson Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: alpha 2.4.11-pre3: delay disabling early boot messages Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 08:12:23 +0100 Message-ID: <17968.1002265943@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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