Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!

arch/mips/arc/console.c

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+/*
+ * 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) 1996 David S. Miller (dm@sgi.com)
+ * Compability with board caches, Ulf Carlsson
+ */
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <asm/sgialib.h>
+#include <asm/bcache.h>
+
+/*
+ * IP22 boardcache is not compatible with board caches.  Thus we disable it
+ * during romvec action.  Since r4xx0.c is always compiled and linked with your
+ * kernel, this shouldn't cause any harm regardless what MIPS processor you
+ * have.
+ *
+ * The ARC write and read functions seem to interfere with the serial lines
+ * in some way. You should be careful with them.
+ */
+
+void prom_putchar(char c)
+{
+	ULONG cnt;
+	CHAR it = c;
+
+	bc_disable();
+	ArcWrite(1, &it, 1, &cnt);
+	bc_enable();
+}
+
+char prom_getchar(void)
+{
+	ULONG cnt;
+	CHAR c;
+
+	bc_disable();
+	ArcRead(0, &c, 1, &cnt);
+	bc_enable();
+
+	return c;
+}
+
+void prom_printf(char *fmt, ...)
+{
+	va_list args;
+	char ppbuf[1024];
+	char *bptr;
+
+	va_start(args, fmt);
+	vsprintf(ppbuf, fmt, args);
+
+	bptr = ppbuf;
+
+	while (*bptr != 0) {
+		if (*bptr == '\n')
+			prom_putchar('\r');
+
+		prom_putchar(*bptr++);
+	}
+	va_end(args);
+}