From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 23:09:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 23:09:14 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:64008 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 23:09:13 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] early printk for x86 Date: 14 Nov 2002 20:15:50 -0800 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <3DD3FCB3.40506@us.ibm.com> <3DD40719.5030108@pobox.com> <3DD428C3.4030700@us.ibm.com> <20021115044300.C20764@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2002 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <20021115044300.C20764@wotan.suse.de> By author: Andi Kleen In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > 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. > That's a pretty big assumption. I wouldn't hold that to be necessarily true. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt