On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 01:36:39PM -0400, Robin Getz wrote: > The patch (for review - not inclusion - I will send to Bryan if no one has > any > major objections, and he can push it via git) implements early printk for the > Blackfin architecture. > > It also adds an early exception handler, so if an > interrupt/exception/violation happens before the kernel enables it's > interrupts (yes that does happen periodically, and it is a nice to have a > debug feature to help , that we don't go back to the bootloaders exception > processing table... > > It also removes some of the crap that was trying to implement the same thing > (poorly).
So this patch does three things at least: -> adds early_printk -> delete cruft emulating early printk -> add an early excaption handler That seems to explain why I could not follow your code changes. A more fine grained splitup would have helped here. I noticed that you copied the actual early_printk code from x86_64. What was preventing you from just using the x86_64 code here? A simple #include <arch/x86_64/boot/early_printk.c> in the blackfin early_printk should do the trick. alpha btw uses the implementation in lib/*printf.c Are there a specific reason why blackfin and x86_64 does not do the same? Thinking that all should do the same so maybe alpha ought to change... Sam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/