linux/include
Stas Sergeev 99b7de3347 [PATCH] x86: early printk handling fixes
The history is that -mm kernels do not work for me for a few months
already.  The things started from crashing somewhere after starting init,
and for the last month - no boot at all, just "Uncompressing...  OK,
booting kernel", and silence.  Early console didn't work too.  With the
latest releases this degraded into an infinite stream of the "Unknown
interrupt or fault" messages.  So today my patience ran out and I started
to think how can I collect at least some info for the bug-report.  Attached
is the patch that allows to gather some valueable debug info on the problem
by making an early console more useable.  I can't properly test the patch,
as the kernel still doesn't boot, so I'll explain it in details in a hope
someone else can justify the intrusive changes.

arch_hooks.h: added prototypes for setup_early_printk() and early_printk().

setup.c: killed wrong setup_early_printk() prototype.  Moved
setup_early_printk() a bit earlier, as it was not "early enough" to cover
the bug I was fighting with.

early_printk.c: made it to start printing from the bottom of the screen,
otherwise the messages interfere with the ones of the boot-loader, so you
can't read them.

Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:05 -08:00
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acpi [ACPI] ACPICA 20060127 2006-01-31 03:25:09 -05:00
asm-alpha [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h 2006-02-15 15:32:22 -08:00
asm-arm Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2006-03-22 17:32:09 -08:00
asm-arm26 [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h 2006-02-15 15:32:22 -08:00
asm-cris [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h 2006-02-15 15:32:22 -08:00
asm-frv [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h 2006-02-15 15:32:22 -08:00
asm-generic [PATCH] add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE() 2006-03-20 13:42:58 -08:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h 2006-02-15 15:32:22 -08:00
asm-i386 [PATCH] x86: early printk handling fixes 2006-03-23 07:38:05 -08:00
asm-ia64 [PATCH] hugepage: is_aligned_hugepage_range() cleanup 2006-03-22 07:54:04 -08:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] m32r: fix and update for gcc-4.0 2006-02-24 14:31:36 -08:00
asm-m68k [PATCH] m68k: fix cmpxchg compile errors if CONFIG_RMW_INSNS=n 2006-03-09 19:47:38 -08:00
asm-m68knommu [PATCH] m68knommu: hardirq.h needs definition of NR_IRQS 2006-02-07 16:16:54 -08:00
asm-mips It's UTF-8 2006-03-22 00:13:35 +01:00
asm-parisc [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h 2006-02-15 15:32:22 -08:00
asm-powerpc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2006-03-22 22:20:46 -08:00
asm-ppc powerpc: Implement accurate task and CPU time accounting 2006-02-24 14:05:56 +11:00
asm-s390 [PATCH] mm: remove set_pgdir leftovers 2006-03-22 07:53:56 -08:00
asm-sh [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h 2006-02-15 15:32:22 -08:00
asm-sh64 [PATCH] mm: remove set_pgdir leftovers 2006-03-22 07:53:56 -08:00
asm-sparc [SPARC]: Respect vm_page_prot in io_remap_page_range(). 2006-03-22 01:15:13 -08:00
asm-sparc64 [SPARC64]: Add a secondary TSB for hugepage mappings. 2006-03-22 01:15:14 -08:00
asm-um [PATCH] x86: SMP alternatives 2006-03-23 07:38:04 -08:00
asm-v850 [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h 2006-02-15 15:32:22 -08:00
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] Enable mprotect on huge pages 2006-03-22 07:54:03 -08:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h 2006-02-15 15:32:22 -08:00
keys
linux [PATCH] DM: Fix bug: BIO_RW_BARRIER requests to md/raid1 hang. 2006-03-23 07:38:03 -08:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (3513): Remove saa711x driver 2006-03-21 08:53:40 -08:00
mtd
net [NETFILTER]: futher {ip,ip6,arp}_tables unification 2006-03-22 13:56:56 -08:00
pcmcia [PATCH] pcmcia: Add macro to match PCMCIA cards by numeric ID and first vendor string 2006-03-01 11:11:26 +01:00
rdma IB/umad: Add support for large RMPP transfers 2006-03-20 10:08:23 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge ../linux-2.6 2006-03-21 13:05:45 -06:00
sound [ALSA] version 1.0.11rc4 2006-03-22 14:37:15 +01:00
video [PATCH] neofb: avoid resetting display config on unblank (v2) 2006-02-15 15:32:21 -08:00