On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Ladislav Michl wrote: > I was told by many people that prom_printf and friends should die and > early_printk should be used instead. this patch (against 2.5) does first > part of job. compiles and works on IP22 (SNI RM200 and IP32 don't > compile anyway). Feedback appreciated, as always. Hmm, strange idea -- I guess that originates from systems that have no suitable firmware to perform such an operation at the console. Currently only x86_64 implements early_printk() -- if we have an implementation for MIPS, we may consider removing the alternative. Also prom_printf() comes almost for free and works very early and as I see in the x86_64 version early_printk() requires initialization of a console driver, which may be unfortunate if debugging a problem within the driver. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
