On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, peter fuerst wrote: > Here's what helped me *a lot* when debugging. It's rather ugly, polluting > printk.c with platform/driver-(cross-)dependent hacks, but output is available > immediately on kernel startup, and on some machines you just can't do without > that ;) > (perhaps someone sometimes will create a clean implementation...) Hint, hint! Please have a look at arch/mips/dec/prom/console.c to see how trivial it can be! (Of course DECstations have a particularly fancy piece of firmware -- you may have to do more work with less capable one.) Maciej