From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86,setup: add serial_console_port_base in boot_params
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:21:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C5469AF.2010608@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100731083409.GC5859@lenovo>
On 07/31/2010 01:34 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 03:27:18PM -0700, 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>
>>
>
> Hi Yinghai, sorry for delayed response. I like the idea much since it'll allow
> to log decompressor messages in case if someone would be changing exitsting code
> or developing new one, though this touches boot protocol so that grub/syslinux
> and friends will have to update their code as well which of course need some
> time.
>
No, this is the internal part of the boot protocol, so it's not an issue.
-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:[~2010-07-31 18:22 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
2010-07-16 1:30 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-07-31 8:34 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-07-31 18:21 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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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