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Hi John,

On 1/7/21 1:02 AM, John Ogness wrote:
> Hi Vineet,
> 
> On 2021-01-06, Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> wrote:
>> This breaks ARC booting (no output on console).
> 
> Could you provide the kernel boot arguments that you use? This series is
> partly about addressing users that have used boot arguments that are
> technically incorrect (even if had worked). Seeing the boot arguments of
> users that are not experiencing problems may help to reveal some of the
> unusual console usages until now.


Kernel command line: earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0xf0005000,115200n8 
console=ttyS0,115200n8 debug print-fatal-signals=1

And we do have serial driver built-in.

Thx,
-Vineet