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From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>,
	Cengiz Akinli <cengiz@drtalus.aoe.vt.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xsdg <xsdg@openprojects.net>
Subject: Re: [patch] early printk. (was: Re: computer reboots before "Uncompressing Linux..." with 2.5.19-xfs)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:37:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020613203753.GV13541@opus.bloom.county> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17757.1023845630@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206120825510.4043-100000@elte.hu> <20020612172754.C87@toy.ucw.cz>

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:27:54PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > >>Then, after a small pause, the box reboots (note: it does _not_ print
> > > >>"Uncompressing Linux...").  I have tried the following:
> > > >
> > > >Interesting problem.....  Interesting because I'm having the EXACT
> > > >SAME PROBLEM!!!!  ARRRRRGGGGHHH!!!!
> > > 
> > > Try http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101072840225142&w=2
> > 
> > you might as well try the attached early_printk() patch, it's slightly
> > easier to use than a one-char macro. But the goal is the same.
> 
> Could this be arch-independend? x86-64 has it, too, and AFAIR it was taken
> from ia64.. Plus, it is *very* usefull.

>From looking at the patch, that looks horribly i386 (and related)
specific.

And FYI PPC has had something similar (CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT, and in 2.5
CONFIG_SERIAL_TEXT_DEBUG) for a while now.

-- 
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-13 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-12  0:22 computer reboots before "Uncompressing Linux..." with 2.5.19-xfs xsdg
2002-06-12  0:37 ` Cengiz Akinli
2002-06-12  1:33   ` Keith Owens
2002-06-12  6:29     ` [patch] early printk. (was: Re: computer reboots before "Uncompressing Linux..." with 2.5.19-xfs) Ingo Molnar
2002-06-12 10:47       ` Keith Owens
2002-06-12 17:27       ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-13 20:37         ` Tom Rini [this message]
2002-06-13 22:18         ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-06-17 19:59         ` James Simmons
2002-06-12  3:29   ` computer reboots before "Uncompressing Linux..." with 2.5.19-xfs xsdg
2002-06-12 14:40 ` J.S.Souza
2002-06-12 14:33   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-06-12 15:55     ` J.S.Souza
2002-06-12 20:21 ` Diego Calleja

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