Re: anyone have a 16-bit x86 early_printk?

William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-21T23:41:11Z

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> It actually turned out to be a bug in the early_printk I was using that
>> killed it on the first call to it, but the availability of this will
>> certainly broaden the scope of what I can feasibly debug.

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:31:04AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Are you using the one that calls console_setup(), then initializes the
> serial driver directly? I was seeing some strange behavior with that
> yesterday, but I assumed that it was my patch crashing in early boot.
> What was the bug?

I don't think that was the one, no. I didn't bother debugging it and just
hand-coded the bitbanging directly in asm.

-- wli