Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] arch/x86: remove pci uart early console from early_prink.c

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Jun 03 2015 - 12:56:58 EST


On Tue, 2 Jun 2015, Bin Gao wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 11:07:39PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > What about the memory mapped uarts which have been source of trouble
> > in the past?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > tglx
>
> Not sure which specific early console you are referring to.
> Currently we have serial, ttyS, vga, dbgp, xen, efi and pciserial in
> arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c, and only pciserial is memory mapped
> (but it's being removed).

Removed? So you kill the only way to get early serial output on
certain machines?

Thanks,

tglx
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