Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755288Ab0GLI7E (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:59:04 -0400 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:53456 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754472Ab0GLI7B (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:59:01 -0400 Message-ID: <4C3AD94C.7070807@cs.helsinki.fi> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:58:52 +0300 From: Pekka Enberg User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Macintosh/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yinghai Lu CC: Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Setup early console as early as possible References: <4C3A3B27.7020009@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <4C3A3B27.7020009@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 654 Lines: 19 Hi Yinghai, Yinghai Lu wrote: > Analyze "console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,115200n8" in i386_start_kernel/x86_64_start_kernel, > and call setup_early_serial8250_console() to init early serial console. > > only can handle io port kind of 8250. because mmio need ioremap. > > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu What's the purpose of this patch? Does it make my early boot I/O patch obsolete? Pekka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/