From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
yinghai@kernel.org, just.for.lkml@googlemail.com,
tglx@linutronix.de, Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: Early console confusion
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:26:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C9A4A4F.3060909@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009221222.00475.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
On 09/22/2010 11:21 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>
> I think earlycon and earlyprintk have minimal backwards compatibility
> problems, since they're mostly for developers. And if we decided
> we did need to keep them, they could be undocumented and implemented
> on top of "console=" with the appropriate explicit device.
>
The problem is that they're actually hard-coded into the firmware of
some embedded devices.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-22 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-29 17:25 Linux 2.6.36-rc3 Linus Torvalds
2010-08-29 19:24 ` Chris Ball
2010-08-29 19:24 ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-08-29 22:27 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-08-29 22:36 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-08-29 22:53 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-08-30 4:50 ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-08-30 1:12 ` [PATCH] x86, setup: fix earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200 Yinghai Lu
2010-08-30 1:13 ` [PATCH] x86, setup: fix earlyprintk=serial,0x3f8,115200 Yinghai Lu
2010-09-08 21:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-09 7:23 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-21 19:58 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, setup: Fix earlyprintk=serial,0x3f8,115200 tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2010-09-21 19:58 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, setup: Fix earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200 tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2010-09-22 15:12 ` Early console confusion Bjorn Helgaas
2010-09-22 15:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-22 16:44 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-09-22 16:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-22 18:21 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-09-22 18:26 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-08-29 22:40 ` Linux 2.6.36-rc3 Jean-Denis Girard
2010-08-30 5:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-08-30 8:00 ` Jean-Denis Girard
2010-08-30 8:47 ` Miguel Calleja
2010-08-30 17:00 ` Suresh Jayaraman
2010-08-30 17:00 ` Suresh Jayaraman
[not found] ` <4C7BE3AE.8020204-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2010-08-30 17:14 ` Shirish Pargaonkar
2010-08-30 17:14 ` Shirish Pargaonkar
2010-08-30 17:25 ` Randy Dunlap
[not found] ` <20100830102527.17d5e1f1.randy.dunlap-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-08-30 21:27 ` Steve French
2010-08-30 21:27 ` Steve French
2010-08-30 19:28 ` Piotr Hosowicz
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