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Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 20:11:07 +0600
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/3] x86/earlyprintk: setup serial earlyprintk as early
 as possible
From: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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>
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2015-05-26 19:57 GMT+06:00 Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>:
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 07:20:02PM +0600, Alexander Kuleshov wrote:
>> To be able to use early_printk and serial console between kernel
>> decompression and parse_eary_param.
>
> So no real use case - only a "just because we can" case.
>

It is not "just because we can". There is some code after kernel decompression
and before parse_early_param and earlyprintk can be useful for
printing debugging information
in this case.
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