Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] ArmPkg: use console for minimal 'exception occurred' message

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 01/16/19 21:36, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 09:23, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> When running with a graphical console, no message whatsoever is printed
>> when the systems hits an unexpected exception and hangs, because even
>> the minimal 'exception occurred' message is only sent to the serial port.
>>
>> So let's fix that, by updating DefaultExceptionHandlerLib to take the
>> availability of a console into account. (#5)
>>
>> This requires some preparatory decruftication so that we can safely refer
>> to the system table and console (#1 .. #4).
>>
>> Changes since v1:
>> - split off ArmVirtPkg patch (#3)
>> - always send minimal error message to the serial port before attempting to
>>   send it to console->stdout as well (which is more likely to fail) (#5)
>> - add Leif's R-b to the series
>>
>> Ard Biesheuvel (5):
>>   ArmPkg/DebugAgentSymbolsBaseLib: remove exception handling
>>   ArmPkg/DefaultExceptionHandlerLib: declare the permitted usage context
>>   ArmVirtPkg: drop reference to ArmPkg/DefaultExceptionHandlerLibBase
>>   ArmPkg/DefaultExceptionHandlerLib: drop BASE variant
>>   ArmPkg/DefaultExceptionHandlerLib: use console if available
>>
> 
> Series pushed as
> 
> 47d977733137 ArmPkg/DebugAgentSymbolsBaseLib: remove exception handling
> 74a12eae9f2c ArmPkg/DefaultExceptionHandlerLib: declare the permitted
> usage context
> ef9f0bff477f ArmVirtPkg: drop reference to ArmPkg/DefaultExceptionHandlerLibBase
> 1e32c49718c6 ArmPkg/DefaultExceptionHandlerLib: drop BASE variant
> 31f5388006fc ArmPkg/DefaultExceptionHandlerLib: use console if available
> 
> after applying the changes suggested by Laszlo. I failed to include
> Laszlo's R-b in 3/5, apologies for that.
> 

That's not a problem,
Laszlo