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On 10/19/23 08:51, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Thu, 2023-10-19 at 08:48 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> +config EARLY_PRINTK
>>> +	bool "Early printk"
>>> +	depends on SH_STANDARD_BIOS
>>> +	help
>>> +	  Say Y here to redirect kernel printk messages to the serial port
>>> +	  used by the SH-IPL bootloader, starting very early in the boot
>>> +	  process and ending when the kernel's serial console is initialised.
>>> +	  This option is only useful while porting the kernel to a new machine,
>>
>> Can we expect to see new machine ports using arch/sh/ ?
> 
> There is J-Core which is new open source hardware based on arch/sh.

OK, thanks.

-- 
~Randy