Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753697AbbEHQLl (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2015 12:11:41 -0400 Received: from eddie.linux-mips.org ([148.251.95.138]:57413 "EHLO cvs.linux-mips.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752644AbbEHQLk (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2015 12:11:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 17:11:36 +0100 (BST) From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Peter Hurley cc: Robert Schwebel , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel@pengutronix.de Subject: Re: earlycon: no match? In-Reply-To: <554BE936.2040508@hurleysoftware.com> Message-ID: References: <20150503211054.GR15254@pengutronix.de> <55477BC1.6000805@hurleysoftware.com> <20150504194229.GR15254@pengutronix.de> <5547D4DB.8060300@hurleysoftware.com> <20150504205241.GT15254@pengutronix.de> <5547E447.9020604@hurleysoftware.com> <554B9F43.6000702@hurleysoftware.com> <554BD56D.9010800@hurleysoftware.com> <554BE936.2040508@hurleysoftware.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (LFD 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 719 Lines: 24 On Thu, 7 May 2015, Peter Hurley wrote: > IOW, command line parameters of the form: > > earlycon=uart8250,... > > does not perform earlycon-to-console handoff. [...] > IOW, command line parameters of the form: > > console=uart8250,... > > performs earlycon-to-console handoff. OK, thanks. I missed this detail previously and understood the two parameters had been since 2007 strict aliases to each other. Thanks for your patience to explain it to me. Maciej -- 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/