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From: timur@codeaurora.org (Timur Tabi)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:43:45 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] acpi, spcr: Make SPCR available to x86
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On 2/12/18 7:47 AM, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> ACPI SPCR is used by a vendor to define the serial console for a system.  If
> SPCR exists a user can add kernel parameter "earlycon" (no extra kernel
> parameters) and the console will work out-of-the-box.

"earlycon" is needed only for an *early* console.  You don't need any 
command line parameters for a normal console to work with SPCR.

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