Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 03:29:56PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > > > What about making ppbuf static, to reduce stack usage? > > > > > > By the time when prom_printf() is called stack overflow is not really a > > > consideration anymore, something fatal has happened before. > > > > I don't think printing e.g. "LINUX started..." indicates something fatal. :-) > > So use printk :-) printk might not be ready at that time. I grepped the example from arch/mips/mips-boards/generic/init.c, and there are some more occurences in arch/mips which seem to be non-fatal. Thiemo