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Date:   Mon, 16 Sep 2019 09:12:09 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:     Re: [PATCH] serial/sifive: select SERIAL_EARLYCON
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On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 23:42:53 PDT (-0700), Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 01:40:27PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>> OpenEmbedded passes "earlycon=sbi", which I can find in the doumentation.
>> I can't find anything about just "earlycon".  I've sent a patch adding sbi
>> to the list of earlycon arguments.
>
> earlycon without arguments is documented, although just for ARM64.
> I can send a patch to update it to properly cover all DT platforms
> in addition.

Thanks.  I've kind of lost track of the thread, but assuming that does the 
"automatically pick an earlycon" stuff then that's probably what we should be 
using in the distros.