Re: [PATCH] serial/sifive: select SERIAL_EARLYCON

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 07:36:30 PDT (-0700), Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

OpenEmbedded passes "earlycon=sbi", which I can find in the doumentation.  I 
can't find anything about just "earlycon".  I've sent a patch adding sbi to the 
list of earlycon arguments.