Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 13:54:33 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Bin Gao <bin.gao@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
        "Stuart R. Anderson" <stuart.r.anderson@intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] arch/x86: remove pci uart early console from
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* Bin Gao <bin.gao@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> The arch independent uart8250 early console driver has good support for memory 
> mapped and io port based 8250 uarts. Since pci is arch independent so it's 
> natural to extend uart8250 to support mem, io and pci. Hence pci uart early 
> console in arch/x86/kernel_printk.c by the following commit: 'commit 
> 5140fda16051 ("Specify PCI based UART for earlyprintk")' is removed. And its 
> equivalent function will be available from uart8250 early console driver.

In what way have you tested this change, does serial-earlyprintk still work on x86 
after the change?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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