Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] serial_core: add pci uart early console support

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun May 24 2015 - 15:52:30 EST


On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 09:06:59AM -0700, Bin Gao wrote:
> On some Intel Atom SoCs, the legacy IO port UART(0x3F8) is not available.
> Instead, a 8250 compatible PCI uart can be used as early console.
> This patch adds pci support to the 8250 early console driver uart8250.
> For example, to enable pci uart(00:21.3) as early console on these
> platforms, append the following line to the kernel command line
> (assume baud rate is 115200):
> earlyprintk=uart8250,pci32,0:24.2,115200n8
>
> Signed-off-by: Bin Gao <bin.gao@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v4:
> - moved PCI_EARLY definition from arch/x86/Kconfig to drivers/pci/Kconfig
> - added 'earlyprintk' for x86 as alias to the early param 'earlycon'

What about the changes in earlier versions?

And why do I have 3 copies of different "v4" patches in my inbox?

Please resend this, as v5, correctly, and we can review it that way.

greg k-h
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