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From:   Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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        paul.walmsley@sifive.com, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial/sifive: select SERIAL_EARLYCON
References: <20190910055923.28384-1-hch@lst.de> <mvm4l1kskny.fsf@suse.de>
        <20190910070503.GA31743@lst.de>
Date:   Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:18:15 +0200
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        "Tue, 10 Sep 2019 09:05:03 +0200")
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On Sep 10 2019, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 08:57:37AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> On Sep 10 2019, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>> 
>> > The sifive serial driver implements earlycon support,
>> 
>> It should probably be documented in admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt.
>
> How so?  Wіth OF and a stdout path you just set earlycon on the
> command line without any arguments and it will be found.

Doesn't work for me.

[    0.000000] Malformed early option 'earlycon'

Andreas.

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