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On 20.06.2009 2:57 Uhr, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 20.06.2009 02:39, ron minnich wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote
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<pre wrap="">do_printk is defined in src/arch/i386/lib/printk_init.c as almost
identical function, but without console_tx_flush and without locking. If
only one CPU uses the lockless variant, we lose.
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<pre wrap="">it's very useful. It can be used in the rom/CAR code before consoles
really work.
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Hm. AFAICS both versions have the same console requirements and just
differ in locking (if you ignore the _flush no-op).
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<pre wrap="">This kind of thing is common. Just about all OSes have a "printk
before printk" function.
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True, but our console requirements for both versions are pretty minimal
and I think we showed in v3 that a one-size-fits-all printk can work fine.
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It didn't, that's the point.. No locking, and it destroyed output of
i.e. a GDB interface by appending (CB) to each line. Plus, the ifdef
mess is really not (much?) nicer to look at than the linker sets.<br>
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One thing I think v3 does right is to not come with a VGA console. I
still think that every line of coreboot output is always a debugging
message. If your machine is so b0rked you can't get to the payload (but
survive far enough to enable vga, which wis realistic in 0% of the
cases, except you're a developer working on the table creation code)
you shouldn't be bothered with text messages on vga but instead connect
a serial console.<br>
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Stefan<br>
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