Early printk is Gone....???
If I clone David's 2.5 tree (or use Linus's tree, same difference) CONFIG_IA64_EARLY_PRINTK is inoperative -- the code to do the work just isn't in the tree.
As it's really useful to have this functionality, can it be added back in, please? Possibly somewhere in arch/ia64 so other architectures don't have to see it (it used to be in kernel/printk)
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If I clone David's 2.5 tree (or use Linus's tree, same difference)
CONFIG_IA64_EARLY_PRINTKis inoperative -- the code to do the work just isn't in the tree.
I just looked at the latest linux-ia64-2.5 bitkeeper tree and it appears to be there. Note that you cannot use EARLY_PRINTK with a Generic kernel anymore.
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If I clone David's 2.5 tree (or use Linus's tree, same difference)
CONFIG_IA64_EARLY_PRINTKis inoperative -- the code to do the work just isn't in the tree.
Martin> I just looked at the latest linux-ia64-2.5 bitkeeper tree and Martin> it appears to be there. Note that you cannot use EARLY_PRINTK Martin> with a Generic kernel anymore.
You're right, it is in David's tree, just not in the to-linus tree or Linus's tree. My bad. Sorry...
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If I clone David's 2.5 tree (or use Linus's tree, same difference)
CONFIG_IA64_EARLY_PRINTKis inoperative -- the code to do the work just isn't in the tree.
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Martin> I just looked at the latest linux-ia64-2.5 bitkeeper tree and Martin> it appears to be there. Note that you cannot use
EARLY_PRINTKMartin> with a Generic kernel anymore.You're right, it is in David's tree, just not in the to-linus tree or Linus's tree. My bad. Sorry...
EARLY_PRINTK is really only for bringup. It really don't expect that it will ever be pushed to Linus. The to-linus tree is really only for David to stick changesets in for Linus to pull into the mainline kernel. It does not compile, and doesn't have to.
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"Martin" = Martin Hicks <[email protected]> writes:
Martin> EARLY_PRINTK is really only for bringup. It really don't Martin> expect that it will ever be pushed to Linus. The to-linus Martin> tree is really only for David to stick changesets in for Linus Martin> to pull into the mainline kernel. It does not compile, and Martin> doesn't have to.
I understand that; the issue I have is that CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK is defined in Kconfig, but does nothing, because the code is not there.
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"Martin" = Martin Hicks <[email protected]> writes:
Martin> EARLY_PRINTK is really only for bringup. It really don't Martin> expect that it will ever be pushed to Linus. The to-linus Martin> tree is really only for David to stick changesets in for Linus Martin> to pull into the mainline kernel. It does not compile, and Martin> doesn't have to.
Peter> I understand that; the issue I have is that CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK is Peter> defined in Kconfig, but does nothing, because the code is not there.
That's a reasonable objection. I'll try to remember to move the EARLY_PRINTK config option into the linux-ia64-2.5 tree as well.
--david