Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 15:17:17 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/3] x86/earlyprintk: setup serial earlyprintk as
 early as possible
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On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 07:06:47PM +0600, Alexander Kuleshov wrote:
> The early_printk function is usable only after the setup_early_printk will
> be executed. We pass 'earlyprintk' through the kernel command line. So, it
> means that earlyprintk will be usable only after the 'parse_early_param'
> will be executed. We have usable earlyprintk only during early boot, kernel
> decompression and after call of the 'parse_early_param'. This patchset makes
> serial earlyprintk usable before the call of the 'parse_early_param'.

... and?

Why do we need it usable before parse_early_param()? Use case?

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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