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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] print efi map descriptor infomation at boot

To: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] print efi map descriptor infomation at bootup
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:14:35 -0600
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On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 21:01 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 11:39 +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> > print efi map descriptor infomation at bootup.
> 
> Hi Isaku,
> 
>    This is useful for debug, but is it really something we want to print
> out to the console on every boot?  Maybe this could be off by default,
> and enabled through a boot time option.  The linux-xen/efi.c changes
> should probably also be enclosed in #ifdef XEN markers.  Thanks,

   On second thought, is there any reason efi_print() needs to be in
linux-xen?  Seems this is may be fairly self-contained and could go in
xenmisc (or somewhere similar) to avoid further modifying linux-xen
files.  Thanks,

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Linux & Open Source Lab


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