Re: alpha 2.4.11-pre3: delay disabling early boot messages

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Fri Oct 05 2001 - 02:12:23 EST


rth@dot.cygnus.com said:
> Alpha has this nice way to output console messages via SRM callbacks
> which we can enable immediately on bootup, and so get debugging output
> before console_init. This patch delays when we turn that off, and so
> narrows the window in which we can't get debug output.

Putting it in time_init() because we happen to know that time_init() is the
last thing called from init/main.c before console_init() is a bit of a
hack :)

I've wanted this on other platforms too - couldn't we add an
unregister_boot_console() to console_init() instead?

--
dwmw2

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