From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
To: n0ano@n0ano.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable console on PCI serial devices
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:44:01 -0600
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On Thursday 16 October 2008 08:39:12 pm n0ano@n0ano.com wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 05:16:47PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >... 
> > Did you play with "console=uart,io,0xe880,115200n8" at all?
> > 
> > That gives you early serial console output and automatically switches
> > to the matching ttyS device when it is discovered.
> > 
> > "console=uart" doesn't have support for crystal frequency, but that
> > could be added in drivers/serial/8250_early.c.
> > 
> 
> Yep, that was pointed out and my latest patch does just that, use the
> `uart' syntax to specify I/O address and enhance it to control crystal
> frequency.

Oops, sorry, I forgot to read the followups before responding.
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