Re: [PATCH] serial/sifive: select SERIAL_EARLYCON

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 10:18:15AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > How so?  WÑth OF and a stdout path you just set earlycon on the
> > command line without any arguments and it will be found.
> 
> Doesn't work for me.
> 
> [    0.000000] Malformed early option 'earlycon'

That functionality is implemented by param_setup_earlycon and
early_init_dt_scan_chosen_stdout.  Check why those aren't built into
your kernel.