On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 13:34, Grant Erickson wrote: > This merges support for the previously DENX-only kernel feature of > specifying an alternative, "external" buffer for kernel printk > messages and their associated metadata. In addition, this ports > architecture support for this feature from arch/ppc to arch/powerpc. > > Signed-off-by: Grant Erickson <gerickson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > When this option is enabled, an architecture- or machine-specific log > buffer is used for all printk messages. This allows entities such as > boot loaders (e.g. U-Boot) to place printk-compatible messages into > this buffer and for the kernel to coalesce them with its normal > messages. > <snip> this extended info should be part of the changelog and thus above the --- marker ... -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
