Re: Virtio_console usage of early printk

2010-03-23 Thread Alexander Graf
On 22.03.2010, at 18:45, François Diakhate wrote: Hi all, As far as I can see, early_put_chars is not used by virtio_console because it checks whether there is a port available before using it. If I understand correctly, this makes it useless because once we have a port, we can use the

Re: Virtio_console usage of early printk

2010-03-23 Thread Christian Borntraeger
Am Dienstag 23 März 2010 03:16:20 schrieb Amit Shah: On (Mon) Mar 22 2010 [18:45:47], François Diakhate wrote: the console. Does the attached patch seem valid ? Feedback from s390 and powerpc users who use this functionality would be appreciated. Looks OK to me, Christian, others, could

Re: Virtio_console usage of early printk

2010-03-23 Thread Amit Shah
On (Mon) Mar 22 2010 [18:45:47], François Diakhate wrote: Hi all, As far as I can see, early_put_chars is not used by virtio_console because it checks whether there is a port available before using it. If I understand correctly, this makes it useless because once we have a port, we can use

Re: Virtio_console usage of early printk

2010-03-23 Thread François Diakhate
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Amit Shah amit.s...@redhat.com wrote: On (Mon) Mar 22 2010 [18:45:47], François Diakhate wrote: Hi all, As far as I can see, early_put_chars is not used by virtio_console because it checks whether there is a port available before using it. If I understand

Virtio_console usage of early printk

2010-03-22 Thread François Diakhate
Hi all, As far as I can see, early_put_chars is not used by virtio_console because it checks whether there is a port available before using it. If I understand correctly, this makes it useless because once we have a port, we can use the regular virtio transport to output things to the console.

Re: Virtio_console usage of early printk

2010-03-22 Thread Amit Shah
On (Mon) Mar 22 2010 [18:45:47], François Diakhate wrote: Hi all, As far as I can see, early_put_chars is not used by virtio_console because it checks whether there is a port available before using it. If I understand correctly, this makes it useless because once we have a port, we can use