Re: [PATCH 0/2] Early printk support for virtio console devices.

From: Peter Maydell
Date: Mon Apr 29 2013 - 08:50:32 EST


On 29 April 2013 13:22, Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oh, and it should default to off.

That would be a pretty unhelpful default. We should default
things so that console output from the kernel is available
as early as reasonably possible by default IMHO -- this
reduces the number of "nothing happens" user complaints
where you then have to explain how to enable early printk
so you can get some actual information about what happened.

-- PMM
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