On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 10:36:46PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote: > As a side note, I would personally leave the DEBUG non-optional and > turned on as it all disappears at runtime anyway, but I'm no kernel > developer :) Printing is hardware specific; the debug code will need to be changed for practically every MIPS platform on the planet, so I'm not too fond of the idea unless somebody comes up with a cleaner infrastructure to do so. Unfortunately we're not setup very well to do configuration detection etc. in that debug code without adding tons of baggage. Ralf