From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@oracle.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Setup early console as early as possible
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:47:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C3B38F7.1050400@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C3AD94C.7070807@cs.helsinki.fi>
On 07/12/2010 01:58 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Yinghai,
>
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> Analyze "console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,115200n8" in
>> i386_start_kernel/x86_64_start_kernel,
>> and call setup_early_serial8250_console() to init early serial console.
>>
>> only can handle io port kind of 8250. because mmio need ioremap.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
>
> What's the purpose of this patch? Does it make my early boot I/O patch
> obsolete?
>
> Pekka
No, they're complementary. Your patch serial-port enables the RM
kernel, whereas Yinghai pushes the initialization earlier in the PM kernel.
Incidentally, Yinghai: it would be possible to push even an MMIO
reference earlier by reserving a fixmap slot for the early console. I'm
not sure if it's worth it, though.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-12 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-11 21:44 Yinghai Lu
2010-07-12 8:58 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-12 15:47 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-07-12 16:21 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-07-12 17:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-13 17:43 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-13 20:35 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-07-13 20:46 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-14 2:07 ` [PATCH] x86: only set early_serial_base after port is initialized Yinghai Lu
2010-07-14 8:41 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-07-14 18:26 ` [PATCH -v2] x86: only set early_serial_base after port is initialized in setup code Yinghai Lu
2010-07-14 19:12 ` [tip:x86/setup] x86, setup: Only set early_serial_base after port is initialized tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2010-07-13 21:12 ` [tip:x86/setup] x86, setup: Make the setup code also accept console=uart8250 tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2010-07-12 17:44 ` [PATCH] x86: Setup early console as early as possible Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-07-12 18:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-12 18:11 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-07-12 22:57 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-12 23:37 ` Yinghai Lu
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2010-07-12 20:57 ` Bodo Eggert
2010-07-12 21:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
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