xref: /linux/arch/arm/kernel/early_printk.c (revision 9a379e77033f02c4a071891afdf0f0a01eff8ccb)
1 /*
2  *  linux/arch/arm/kernel/early_printk.c
3  *
4  *  Copyright (C) 2009 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
5  *
6  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
8  * published by the Free Software Foundation.
9  */
10 
11 #include <linux/kernel.h>
12 #include <linux/console.h>
13 #include <linux/init.h>
14 #include <linux/string.h>
15 
16 extern void printascii(const char *);
17 
18 static void early_write(const char *s, unsigned n)
19 {
20 	char buf[128];
21 	while (n) {
22 		unsigned l = min(n, sizeof(buf)-1);
23 		memcpy(buf, s, l);
24 		buf[l] = 0;
25 		s += l;
26 		n -= l;
27 		printascii(buf);
28 	}
29 }
30 
31 static void early_console_write(struct console *con, const char *s, unsigned n)
32 {
33 	early_write(s, n);
34 }
35 
36 static struct console early_console_dev = {
37 	.name =		"earlycon",
38 	.write =	early_console_write,
39 	.flags =	CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_BOOT,
40 	.index =	-1,
41 };
42 
43 static int __init setup_early_printk(char *buf)
44 {
45 	early_console = &early_console_dev;
46 	register_console(&early_console_dev);
47 	return 0;
48 }
49 
50 early_param("earlyprintk", setup_early_printk);
51