On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 07:59 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > If we do all this stuff, can we also try to clean up earlyprintk a
> > bit?  The whole earlyconsole mechanism is a mess, and switching over
> > to the non-early console is only somewhat functional.  I'd love to see
> > this all simplified: before there's any console at all available, just
> > buffer messages.  Then, when a console shows up, write the buffer out.
> > Then earlyprintk can work just like regular printk.
> > 
> Begging the question how one would debug failures during that time.
> The current earlyprintk stuff is at least able to print out _something_,
> so that you have some idea what went wrong.
> Without that things will become _really_ hard during board bringup.

No, you don't actually *delay* the console output. You still register
the console as soon as you physically can, but you just don't have all
that nasty special-casing of the "earlyprintk" nonsense; you just make
sure the standard console output is capable of working as early as you
need it to.

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
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