Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86, boot: add mmio serial during compressed boot

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/16/2013 02:03 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> Other way could be:
> 
> Detect if it get into misc.c directly from
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S::startup_64. that is from 64bit
> bootloader.
> 
> others go through startup_32 should be 32bit bootloader.
> 
> If it with 64bit boot loader path, You can skip parsing mmio in
> misc.c::console_init() calling.
> 

Don't hack around it when we can do it right.

	-hpa


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