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From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: n0ano@n0ano.com, donald.d.dugger@intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable console on PCI serial devices
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:23:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F76A8B.6050306@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224153822.3587.23.camel@test.thuisdomein>

Paul Bolle wrote:
> 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?

earlycon= and conole= share uart[8250]...

the difference console= will start from early console and switch normal console automatically if the ttyS come out with same io/mmio address etc.

YH

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-16 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-14 22:31 [PATCH] Enable console on PCI serial devices donald.d.dugger
2008-10-14 22:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-14 23:30   ` n0ano
2008-10-15  9:13     ` Paul Bolle
2008-10-15 20:48       ` n0ano
2008-10-16 10:43         ` Paul Bolle
2008-10-16 16:23           ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2008-10-16 17:12             ` n0ano
2008-10-16 18:19               ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-16 18:25                 ` n0ano
2008-10-16 18:30                   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-16 18:57                     ` n0ano
2008-10-17  2:45                     ` n0ano
2008-10-17  3:32                       ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-17 16:05                         ` n0ano
2008-10-17 17:01                           ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-14 22:53 ` Alan Cox
2008-10-14 23:04   ` n0ano
2008-10-16 23:16 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-10-17  2:39   ` n0ano
2008-10-17  9:28     ` Alan Cox
2008-10-17 14:11       ` n0ano
2008-10-17 14:46         ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-10-17 15:36           ` n0ano
2008-10-17 16:39             ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-10-17 17:06               ` n0ano
2008-10-20 16:44                 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-10-20 17:11                   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-10-20 17:43                     ` n0ano
2008-10-20 19:11                       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-10-21 20:08                         ` n0ano
2008-10-21 22:08                           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-10-21 22:33                             ` n0ano
2008-10-17 14:44     ` Bjorn Helgaas

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