Re: [RFC] arm64: Early printk support for virtio-mmio console devices.

From: Peter Maydell
Date: Fri Apr 19 2013 - 12:33:50 EST


On 19 April 2013 17:22, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> earlyprintk is used for debugging early problems, like DT parsing. You
> don't have to use it unless you are debugging something. Without
> earlyprintk you just get a normal console during boot, based on the DT
> description.

The command line lives in the DTB anyway so if you can't look
in the DTB you can't get at earlyprintk config either way.

-- PMM
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