[PATCH/RFC] Add Alternative Log Buffer Support for printk Messages

[Grant Likely]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Matt Sealey <matt at genesi-usa.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Bill Gatliff <bgat at billgatliff.com> wrote:
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>> Matt Sealey wrote:
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>> > I can think of a bunch of reasons why it's a good idea..
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>> Can you point to a GPL/LGPL/BSD/etc. source code for an OpenFirmware
>> implementation?
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> Yes, there's FirmWorks, CodeGen SmartFirmware, IBM SLOF and OpenBIOS..
> they're all linked from the OpenBIOS website (along with a bunch of the
> documentation from http://www.openfirmware.org in more-readable formats like
> PDF)
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> http://www.openbios.org/
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> But here's the real question; why do you need an opensource implementation?
> Curiosity?

Umm, so that it can be ported to new boards perhaps?  So that
developers can work with it?

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.