Hello, Toshi. On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 01:31:43PM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote: > Well, there is reason why we have earlyprintk feature today. So, let's > not debate on this feature now. There was previous attempt to support Are you saying the existing earlyprintk automatically justifies addition of more complex mechanism? The added complex of course should be traded off against the benefits of gaining ACPI based early boot. You aren't gonna suggest implementing netconsole based earlyprintk, right? > this feature with ACPI tables below. As described, it had the same > ordering issue. > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/8/498 > > There is a basic problem that when we try to use ACPI tables that > extends or replaces legacy interfaces (ex. SRAT extending e820), we hit > this ordering issue because ACPI is not available as early as the legacy > interfaces. Do we even want ACPI parsing and all that that early? Parsing SRAT early doesn't buy us much and I'm not sure whether adding ACPI earlyprintk would increase or decrease debuggability during earlyboot. It adds whole lot more code paths where things can go wrong while the basic execution environment is unstable. Why do that? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>