Replacing/enhancing kernel printf()
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Sep 22 13:03:48 PDT 2007
In message <C75B4E27-E2BA-43CF-AFB6-C8104AAA6C72 at mac.com>, Marcel Moolenaar wri
tes:
>Agreed. We should not lump them together. However, they are
>interrelated, so we cannot treat them independently either.
>The switchboard approach was a way to 1) untangle the low-
>level console from /dev/console and 2) allow everything to
>be interconnected in some form of shape without backchannels
>and/or hooks.
I'm deeply sceptical, but if you think you know how to do it,
in a way that still works in a panic context, by all means
try it out.
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