On 13:02 Thu 18 Apr , Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar wrote: > On 18 April 2013 12:21, Rusty Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > PranavkumarSawargaonkar <[email protected]> writes: > > > From: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <[email protected]> > > > > > > This patch implements early printk support for virtio-mmio console > > > devices without using any hypercalls. > > > > This makes some sense, though not sure that early console *read* makes > > much sense. I can see the PCI version of this being useful as well. > > Read can be useful for "mach-virt" which will have only virtio console > as a console device. Then if someone wants to have UEFI or any other > boot-loader emulation, which expects user to input few things, in that > case read might become handy.
yes I'm adding barebox on arm64 and will need it for virt target Best Regards, J. > > > > > > The spec definition for this will be interesting, because it can be used > > before the device is initialized (something which is generally > > verboten). > > > > Cheers, > > Rusty. > > Thanks, > Pranav > > _______________________________________________ > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
