[PATCH] Update udbg_progress() to display the integer
Paul Mackerras
paulus at samba.org
Wed Feb 7 10:11:33 EST 2007
Timur Tabi writes:
> The reason I can't use the same exact printk() is because of this code in
> function ppc_init():
>
> /* clear the progress line */
> if ( ppc_md.progress ) ppc_md.progress(" ", 0xffff);
>
> If I could get rid of this line, then I wouldn't need to check for "hex ==
> 0xFFFF", but I don't know why ppc_init() thinks it needs to "clear the progress
> line". Maybe this is for some kind of LED display.
It would have been for the 2-line display on IBM RS/6000 machines. If
that's still needed, we can put it in arch/powerpc/platforms/chrp
somewhere, so feel free to remove it from ppc_init().
Paul.
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