Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762664AbXEUQ3S (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 12:29:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756049AbXEUQ3F (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 12:29:05 -0400 Received: from nwk-ea-fw-1.sun.com ([192.18.42.249]:62195 "EHLO nwk-ea-fw-1.sun.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755003AbXEUQ3E (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 12:29:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 09:27:26 -0700 From: Yinghai Lu Subject: Re: [PATCH]serial: make early_uart to use early_prarm instead of console_initcall In-reply-to: <20070521104221.GU2012@bingen.suse.de> To: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton , Bjorn Helgaas , Gerd Hoffmann , Linus Torvalds , linux kernel mailing list Reply-to: Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM Message-id: <4651C86E.2040901@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <200705181900.17101.yinghai.lu@sun.com> <20070520202332.145d93a6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070521104221.GU2012@bingen.suse.de> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070326) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 679 Lines: 16 Andi Kleen wrote: > It is someone's reimplemention of earlyprintk= for another architecture > that happens to mostly work on x86 too because the code is not ifdeffed. > I don't think it makes much sense on x86 though because earlyprintk exists. Andi, Bjorn refer to your early_printk to implement early_uart for ia64 platform. code is almost identical, but it could take mmio,0xfe00000,9600n8 etc. or say mmio type serial card. YH - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/