Re: EFI Boot Stub Early Console

[Shea Levy]

On 3/19/12 11:56 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > any bootloader (including the bootstub) will call ExitBootServices()
> > > before any printk'ing actually happens?? Or am I misunderstanding the
> > > spec somehow? I suppose I could just try it and see what happens...
> > Oops. Good point, that isn't going to work.
> Surely it works fine if you are using bootstub directly from EFI ?

ConOut will work before the call to ExitBootServices(), but any 
bootloader (including the boot stub) calls that before starting the 
normal kernel boot process. I'm working on a generic earlyprintk that 
provides the same functionality as the existing earlyprintks that will 
work for any EFI boot. Matt already submitted a patch for an efi_printk 
that will be sufficient for the boot stub itself before the call to 
ExitBootServices().

~Shea
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