# RE: powerpc: Add printk companion for ppc\_md.progress

- From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt \<benh@kernel.crashing.org\>
- Date: 2011-06-17 05:39:16 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2011/06/9464961
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2011/06/9464961/t.md

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(Original mail lost in my email cleanup so this isn't a proper reply)

I'll apply that for now, but I'd very much like somebody to just get rid
of the whole ppc_md.progress business.

We have printk working early enough nowadays (and we can use udbg for
debugging).

It was meant to display magic numbers on the panel of IBM machines, I
don't think it was every useful...

Cheers,
Ben.
```