Re: [PATCH v8 0/3] x86/earlyprintk: setup serial earlyprintk as early as possible

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 20:11 +0600, Alexander Kuleshov wrote:
> 2015-05-26 19:57 GMT+06:00 Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>:
> > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 07:20:02PM +0600, Alexander Kuleshov wrote:
> >> To be able to use early_printk and serial console between kernel
> >> decompression and parse_eary_param.
> >
> > So no real use case - only a "just because we can" case.
> >
> 
> It is not "just because we can". There is some code after kernel decompression
> and before parse_early_param and earlyprintk can be useful for
> printing debugging information
> in this case.

So, what is *yours* use case? From here you describe a *potential* use
case, not a real one.

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy

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