From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v4 0/2] ACPI: DBGP/DBG2 early console support for LPIA. Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:36:46 -0700 Message-ID: <5065457E.4040500@zytor.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:37477 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750995Ab2I1Ggy (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2012 02:36:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Lv Zheng Cc: Len Brown , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Jason Wessel , Feng Tang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org On 09/27/2012 10:36 PM, Lv Zheng wrote: > Microsoft Debug Port Table (DBGP or DBG2) is used by the Windows SoC > platforms to describe their debugging facilities. > Recent Low Power Intel Architecture (LPIA) platforms have utilized > this for the SPI UART debug ports that are resident on their debug > boards. > > This patch set enables the DBGP/DBG2 debug ports as an Linux early > console launcher. > The SPI UART debug ports support is also refined to co-exist with this > new usage model. Hi Len, You want to take this, or should I? -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.