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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] early printk for x86
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:52:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021115035225.GQ22031@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021115044300.C20764@wotan.suse.de>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> VGA and serial are certainly not hammer+ia32-specific.  Make the generic 
>>> parts generic...   the arch-specific components would need to change 
>>> early-foo base addresses perhaps, but otherwise, it's pretty generic.

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:50:43PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> Take 2.
>> - Move the x86_64 early_printk.c into kernel/
>> - move some of the basic defines into linux/early_printk.h and
>>   asm-{i386,x86_64}/early_printk.h
>> - run the setup in start_kernel() before setup_arch()

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:43:00AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> That's overkill. Most architectures have an early_printk equivalent in 
> firmware. Only i386 and x86-64 are not lucky enough to have one 
> that is usable from the CPU mode linux uses.

Perhaps s/early_printk/prom_printf/ would pick up a few arches for free.


Bill

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-15  3:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-14 19:42 [PATCH] early printk for x86 Dave Hansen
2002-11-14 19:55 ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-14 20:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-14 22:50   ` Dave Hansen
2002-11-15  3:43     ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-15  3:52       ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-11-15  4:15       ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-11-14 21:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-14 23:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-18 15:15 ` David Woodhouse
2002-11-18 15:17   ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-18 15:39     ` David Woodhouse
     [not found] <3DD3FCB3.40506@us.ibm.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <3DD40719.5030108@pobox.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]   ` <3DD428C3.4030700@us.ibm.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]     ` <20021115044300.C20764@wotan.suse.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]       ` <ar1sdm$gfe$1@cesium.transmeta.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-11-15  4:31         ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-15  4:33           ` H. Peter Anvin

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