Re: [PATCH] x86,setup: add serial_console_port_base in boot_params
From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Thu Jul 15 2010 - 21:34:57 EST
On 07/15/2010 05:12 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 07/15/2010 03:27 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> to save the early_serial_base.
>>
>> Also bootloader could fill that field, so setup code could reuse it.
>>
>> decompress code could reuse early serial console from setup code.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>
> What's the point with this over what we currently have?
extend serial console coverage to boot/compressed/misc.c
before this one, we have cover in boot/*.c only.
Thanks
Yinghai
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