Re: [PATCH] MIPS: OCTEON: fix EARLY_PRINTK_8250 build failure

[Ralf Baechle]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 09:58:45PM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote:

> Enabling EARLY_PRINTK_8250 breaks OCTEON builds because of multiple
> prom_putchar() implementations. OCTEON provides its own prom_putchar()
> (also used by the watchdog driver), so we should prevent user from
> selecting EARLY_PRINTK_8250 on OCTEON.

There shouldn't be Octeon-specific code in the 8250-driver, not even
the Kconfig bits.  Also other systems - at least Sibyte - affected
by the same issue so I went for a different patch.

  Ralf
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