Re: memblock_reserve or memblock_remove to reserve a page

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Nikhil Utane wrote: > MH, > > Let me give a bit of background of the issue. > > We are facing an issue where 4 bytes of physical memory is getting > corrupted (set to 0) at a fixed offset. > This offset is always fixed 0x00A4DDC0

Re: Q: what is the need for console write callback if there is serial tx (start_tx) ?

On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 23:19:51 +0300, Ran Shalit said: > Isn't writing to console, the same as outputing chars to serial ? No. For instance, consider any laptop where "console" is an LCD screen, and if it's recent hardware, there isn't a UART anywhere in the device, nor is there a serial port to

Q: what is the need for console write callback if there is serial tx (start_tx) ?

Hello, I am writing a driver with serial tx/rx. I am not sure what is the need console routines, when there is serial/uart tx/rx. Isn't writing to console, the same as outputing chars to serial ? I've tried to find information on this, but found none. Thank you, Ran