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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial/sifive: select SERIAL_EARLYCON
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 14:00:39 +0200
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On Sep 16 2019, Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Sep 2019, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> On Sep 10 2019, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 08:57:37AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> >> On Sep 10 2019, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> > The sifive serial driver implements earlycon support,
>> >> 
>> >> It should probably be documented in admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt.
>> >
>> > How so?  Wіth OF and a stdout path you just set earlycon on the
>> > command line without any arguments and it will be found.
>> 
>> Doesn't work for me.
>> 
>> [    0.000000] Malformed early option 'earlycon'
>
> Try:
>
>     earlycon=sifive,0x10010000

That's not what Christoph wants.

Andreas.

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