Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:05:01 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86, boot: add mmio serial during compressed boot |
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On 07/16/2013 02:03 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > Other way could be: > > Detect if it get into misc.c directly from > arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S::startup_64. that is from 64bit > bootloader. > > others go through startup_32 should be 32bit bootloader. > > If it with 64bit boot loader path, You can skip parsing mmio in > misc.c::console_init() calling. >
Don't hack around it when we can do it right.
-hpa
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