On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:15:23PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> haveblue@us.ibm.com said:
> > 1. I copied the x86_64 early printk support for plain x86. Is
> > anyone opposed to me sending this on to Linus?
>
> Why is it necessary to reimplement serial console for each arch rather than
> just registering the generic serial console as early as possible from
> arch-specific code?
>
> There's no _reason_ to wait for console_init(), for most consoles.
The generic serial driver needs lots of infrastructure that is not present
in early boot. Also the early_printk serial driver is polled, not
interrupt driven. The whole point of early_printk is that you can debug
from line one of your code, so it is essential that it is self contained
as far as possible.
-Andi
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