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To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: [i386] Remove bogus panic calls in mpparse.c
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 13 Nov 2003 12:03:08 +0100
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Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:

> 2. The user won't see it since the console hasn't initialised yet.

It just means we should really support early_console on i386 too.

I believe Martin Bligh has a patch in his -mjb patchkit. I still believe
it would be very useful in mainline.

-Andi