Re: [PATCH] early printk for x86

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 23:15:50 EST

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Followup to: <20021115044300.C20764@wotan.suse.de>
By author: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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>
> 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

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