[coreboot] printk question

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Fri Feb 12 20:05:38 CET 2010


Gregg Levine wrote:
> would one of you please define the term "printk"?

It is a function name, taken from the Linux kernel.

It behaves like the C function printf() in that it accepts a format
string and a list of parameters.

It is used in coreboot to print debug messages.

Source code here:
http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/browser/trunk/src/console/printk.c
http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/browser/trunk/src/console/vtxprintf.c


//Peter




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