Re: earlycon: no match?

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Fri May 08 2015 - 12:11:45 EST


On Thu, 7 May 2015, Peter Hurley wrote:

> IOW, command line parameters of the form:
>
> earlycon=uart8250,...
>
> does not perform earlycon-to-console handoff.
[...]
> IOW, command line parameters of the form:
>
> console=uart8250,...
>
> performs earlycon-to-console handoff.

OK, thanks. I missed this detail previously and understood the two
parameters had been since 2007 strict aliases to each other. Thanks for
your patience to explain it to me.

Maciej
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