Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760208AbcDEVW3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2016 17:22:29 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f51.google.com ([209.85.218.51]:34301 "EHLO mail-oi0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760193AbcDEVW1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2016 17:22:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160405164202.GA8363@char.us.oracle.com> References: <1459824491-15716-1-git-send-email-cjp256@gmail.com> <20160405134910.GA20327@char.us.oracle.com> <20160405164202.GA8363@char.us.oracle.com> From: Chris Patterson Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 17:22:07 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] kernel-parameters: document earlycon=xenboot To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Jonathan Corbet , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Stefano Stabellini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org 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: 914 Lines: 28 On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 11:43:36AM -0400, Chris Patterson wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk >> wrote: >> > On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 10:48:11PM -0400, Chris Patterson wrote: >> >> Add earlycon=xenboot option to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. >> >> >> > >> > But it is not true. >> > >> > I tried this on x86: "earlycon=xenboot console=tty0" >> > >> >> I can investigate further, but hopefully Stefano can chime in more >> definitively on what is supported. >> >> I used "earlycon=xenboot console=hvc0" with success for dom0 on my >> ARM64 platform. > > Perhaps the documentation should also have [ARM], like some of the > other ones? Absolutely. I will test some combinations and be explicit about what should work in v2. Thanks for the feedback. Cheers, -Chris