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authorimp <imp@FreeBSD.org>2014-01-22 22:25:48 +0000
committerimp <imp@FreeBSD.org>2014-01-22 22:25:48 +0000
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Document EARLY_PRINTF
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options DEBUG_REDZONE
#
+# EARLY_PRINTF enables support for calling a special printf (eprintf)
+# very early in the kernel (before cn_init() has been called). This
+# should only be used for debugging purposes early in boot. Normally,
+# it is not defined. It is commented out here because this feature
+# isn't generally available. And the required eputc() isn't defined.
+#
+#options EARLY_PRINTF
+
+#
# KTRACE enables the system-call tracing facility ktrace(2). To be more
# SMP-friendly, KTRACE uses a worker thread to process most trace events
# asynchronously to the thread generating the event. This requires a
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