Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758487Ab3DSQdp (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:33:45 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f42.google.com ([209.85.215.42]:65106 "EHLO mail-la0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967825Ab3DSQdo (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:33:44 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130419162226.GB5383@localhost.cambridge.arm.com> References: <20130419090558.GA13283@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> <20130419092752.GB13283@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> <20130419093953.GD13283@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> <20130419161201.GA5383@localhost.cambridge.arm.com> <20130419162226.GB5383@localhost.cambridge.arm.com> From: Peter Maydell Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:33:18 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC] arm64: Early printk support for virtio-mmio console devices. To: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon , "linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org" , Patch Tracking , Marc Zyngier , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 676 Lines: 15 On 19 April 2013 17:22, Catalin Marinas wrote: > earlyprintk is used for debugging early problems, like DT parsing. You > don't have to use it unless you are debugging something. Without > earlyprintk you just get a normal console during boot, based on the DT > description. The command line lives in the DTB anyway so if you can't look in the DTB you can't get at earlyprintk config either way. -- PMM -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/