Re: [PATCH] early printk for x86

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Mon Nov 18 2002 - 10:15:23 EST

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haveblue@us.ibm.com said:
> 1. I copied the x86_64 early printk support for plain x86. Is
> anyone opposed to me sending this on to Linus?

Why is it necessary to reimplement serial console for each arch rather than
just registering the generic serial console as early as possible from
arch-specific code?

There's no _reason_ to wait for console_init(), for most consoles.

-- dwmw2

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