Re: [patch] early printk. (was: Re: computer reboots before "Uncompressing Linux..." with 2.5.19-xfs)

[Keith Owens]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 08:29:30 +0200 (CEST), 
Ingo Molnar <[e-mail]> wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Keith Owens wrote:
>> Try http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101072840225142&w=2
>
>you might as well try the attached early_printk() patch, it's slightly
>easier to use than a one-char macro. But the goal is the same.

The main difference is that VIDEO_CHAR is easy to do from assembler as
well, it is just a movb instruction that does not affect any registers.