Re: [PATCH 9/33] i386 boot: Add serial output support to the decompressor

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:

>  
>> The function pointers in the console structure are also a problem.
>> static struct console simnow_console = {
>> 	.name =		"simnow",
>> 	.write =	simnow_write,
>> 	.flags =	CON_PRINTBUFFER,
>> 	.index =	-1,
>> };
>
> Yes just patch them at runtime.

I guess that can work.  It's a bit of a pain though.

>> Ideally the code would be setup so you can compile out consoles
>> the user finds uninteresting.
>
> Seems overkill for early_printk

At least compiling completely out probably isn't.
I have had too many times where the size of a bzImage was an important
factor on a project.
  
>> It is annoying to have to call strlen on all of the strings
>> you want to print..
>
> What strlen? 

The strlen that is needed to convert putstr(char *s) into the
write method for the early_printk helpers.

Eric
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