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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Enable console on PCI serial devices
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On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 14:48 -0600, n0ano@n0ano.com wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:13:19AM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> As an aside, I would personally be in favor of removing the `earlycon'
> kernel parameter entirely, it seems to be a strict subset of the
> `console' parameter and anyone that wants `earlycon' probably wants
> `console' anyway. Is there a strong argument for keeping that
> parameter that I'm missing?

The same thing puzzles me too. Note that earlyprintk=serial|ttyS?[...]
also provides a similar feature.

> earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
>- uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
>- uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
>+ uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options,[clkd]]
>+ uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options,[clkd]]

clkd?


Paul Bolle



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