From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86,setup: add serial_console_port_base in boot_params
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:12:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C3FA3DB.4010507@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C3F8B46.7080809@kernel.org>
On 07/15/2010 03:27 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> to save the early_serial_base.
>
> Also bootloader could fill that field, so setup code could reuse it.
>
> decompress code could reuse early serial console from setup code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
>
What's the point with this over what we currently have?
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-16 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-15 22:27 [PATCH] x86,setup: add serial_console_port_base in boot_params Yinghai Lu
2010-07-16 0:12 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-07-16 1:30 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-07-31 8:34 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-07-31 18:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-31 18:32 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-07-31 21:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-31 21:31 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-08-01 1:53 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-08-01 2:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-08-01 5:20 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-08-03 2:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
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