Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Early-boot serial I/O support

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Sat Jul 10 2010 - 17:17:27 EST


Hi!

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> can you analyze "console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,115200n8" instead?
>
> that is equal to "earlyprintk=ttyS0,115200 console=ttyS0,115200"
>
> so we only use one for all.
>
> also like to kill earlyprintk=ttyS0,115200 to favor earlycon

hpa, what's your take on this?

The 'console' variant seems overly complicated to me. We can add it
but we also need to check for 'earlyprintk' as long as it's supported
by the kernel.

Pekka
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