On 04/24/14 at 12:45pm, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Dave Young <dyo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > earlyprint=efi,keep results a kernel hang after "Freeing unused kernel > > memory" > > That's a bug. > > > > > Actually efi earlyprintk is using __init functions such as early_ioremap > > etc. > > Thus efi earlyconsole can not be kept. > > > > So just ignore it and give out a warning to user. > > So, bugs should be fixed, not worked around. > > earlyprintk=,keep is really useful for the occasional difficult low > level bug in the printk code or similar, because earlyprintk is a > completely separate code path from printk().
I thought that earlyprintk is just for debugging before real console is available. But it does help debugging printk as you said. Will think about how to fix it. Thanks Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
