From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755121AbYFRMOT (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:14:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753487AbYFRMOG (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:14:06 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:60845 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753335AbYFRMOF (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:14:05 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:13:42 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Mike Travis Cc: Yinghai Lu , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: Add config option to setup early serial console Message-ID: <20080618121342.GA12763@elte.hu> References: <20080612224247.486614000@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> <20080612224247.623141000@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> <86802c440806121548s71ff31eapc5f389cfa94ea237@mail.gmail.com> <4851AAAD.8050105@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4851AAAD.8050105@sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0004] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Mike Travis wrote: > > can you check if it can work with > > console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,115200 > > > > that is early console, and will switch to normal console automatically > > > > YH > > I'll rework the patch to enable the serial console as early as > possible. Currently, it's done quite a ways down in start_kernel(). ok, will skip this patch for now then. Ingo