Re: [PATCH] early printk for x86

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
14 Nov 2002 20:15:50 -0800

Followup to: <20021115044300.C20764@wotan.suse.de>
By author: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> That's overkill. Most architectures have an early_printk equivalent in
> firmware. Only i386 and x86-64 are not lucky enough to have one
> that is usable from the CPU mode linux uses.
>

That's a pretty big assumption. I wouldn't hold that to be
necessarily true.

-hpa

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