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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:30:26 -0700
From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86,setup: add serial_console_port_base in boot_params
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On 07/15/2010 05:12 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 07/15/2010 03:27 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> to save the early_serial_base.
>>
>> Also bootloader could fill that field, so setup code could reuse it.
>>
>> decompress code could reuse early serial console from setup code.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
>>
> 
> What's the point with this over what we currently have?

extend serial console coverage to boot/compressed/misc.c

before this one, we have cover in boot/*.c only.

Thanks

Yinghai