[MIPS] Fix and cleanup the mess that a dozen prom_printf variants are.

early_printk is a so much saner thing.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

3 files changed, 49 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/Makefile b/arch/mips/kernel/Makefile
index a3dad39..4924626 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/Makefile
@@ -65,5 +65,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_64BIT)		+= cpu-bugs64.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_I8253)		+= i8253.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_KEXEC)		+= machine_kexec.o relocate_kernel.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK)	+= early_printk.o
 
 CFLAGS_cpu-bugs64.o	= $(shell if $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -Wa,-mdaddi -c -o /dev/null -xc /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo "-DHAVE_AS_SET_DADDI"; fi)
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/early_printk.c b/arch/mips/kernel/early_printk.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..304efdc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/early_printk.c
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+/*
+ * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public
+ * License.  See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive
+ * for more details.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 06, 07 Ralf Baechle (ralf@linux-mips.org)
+ * Copyright (C) 2007 MIPS Technologies, Inc.
+ *   written by Ralf Baechle (ralf@linux-mips.org)
+ */
+#include <linux/console.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+
+extern void prom_putchar(char);
+
+static void early_console_write(struct console *con, const char *s, unsigned n)
+{
+	while (n-- && *s) {
+		if (*s == '\n')
+			prom_putchar('\r');
+		prom_putchar(*s);
+		s++;
+	}
+}
+
+static struct console early_console = {
+	.name	= "early",
+	.write	= early_console_write,
+	.flags	= CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_BOOT,
+	.index	= -1
+};
+
+void __init setup_early_printk(void)
+{
+	register_console(&early_console);
+}
+
+void __init disable_early_printk(void)
+{
+	unregister_console(&early_console);
+}
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
index 11ab222..4975da0 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
@@ -525,6 +525,14 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 {
 	cpu_probe();
 	prom_init();
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
+	{
+		extern void setup_early_printk(void);
+
+		setup_early_printk();
+	}
+#endif
 	cpu_report();
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_VT)