[PATCH]Disable early console in default to avoid printing boot message twice

Hollis Blanchard hollis at penguinppc.org
Mon Jan 29 10:34:13 EST 2007


It is also very annoying that the early boot messages are printed twice 
on ppc64. Can you include ppc64 in this patch?

-Hollis

On Jan 26, 2007, at 2:00 AM, Li Tony-r64360 wrote:

> The early console is default enable in powerpc 32 now.
> This cause the boot message from beginning to console_init() printed 
> twice.
> The early console is useful only when the kernel dead before 
> console_init.
> The patch make the early console optional and disable the early 
> console in default.
> The patch has been tested on mpc8313erdb board
>  
> Signed-off-by: Li Tony <tony.li at freescale.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/Kconfig           |    2 +-
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c |    2 ++
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>  
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> index 0673dbe..0c18951 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ config PPC
>  
>  config EARLY_PRINTK
>   bool
> - default y
> + default t
>  
>  config COMPAT
>   bool
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c 
> b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
> index a4c2964..71eb320 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
> @@ -242,8 +242,10 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
>  
>   smp_setup_cpu_maps();
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
>   /* Register early console */
>   register_early_udbg_console();
> +#endif
>  
>   xmon_setup();
>  
> -- 
> 1.4.2
>  
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