Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:51:39 -0700 | From | Yinghai Lu <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2: serial-convert-early_uart-to-earlycon-for-8250 |
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Andy Whitcroft wrote: > The following patch to 2.6.22-rc4-mm2 seems to update the early console > support for the 8250 uarts: > > serial-convert-early_uart-to-earlycon-for-8250 > > This moved from naming the 8250 uart 'uart' to 'uart8250' in the > console= kernel parameter. While this is sensible long term to allow > other uarts to be supported sanely this puts existing users with > existing console configurations in a difficult position as their console > output just stops appearing. It makes life almost impossible for any > automatic testers as they now need to have different command lines for > different versions of the kernel. > > I think we need to maintain 'uart' as an alias here.
I will try to make one patch to use uart too.
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