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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [patch] early printk. (was: Re: computer reboots before "Uncompressing Linux..." with 2.5.19-xfs) 
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On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 08:29:30 +0200 (CEST), 
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Keith Owens wrote:
>> Try http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101072840225142&w=2
>
>you might as well try the attached early_printk() patch, it's slightly
>easier to use than a one-char macro. But the goal is the same.

The main difference is that VIDEO_CHAR is easy to do from assembler as
well, it is just a movb instruction that does not affect any registers.

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