On 5/21/07, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
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> What is the point in making that work on x86 additionally to serial
> support in early_printk?  It might make sense to split away the serial
> bits from early_printk.c and move them out of arch/ into -- say --
> drivers/serial/, so other architectures can use that too and we have
> only one serial earlyprintk implementation in the kernel.  Not sure it
> is worth the effort given the code size.

yes, we can drop serial bits from early_printk.c, and use
drivers/serial/8250_early.c and
with "earlycon=uart,io,0x3f8,9600n8", "early=ueart,mmio,0xfe000000,9600n8"

and we can extend other non 8250 compatitable uart to some *_early.c
in the same dir.
So other platform and other uart could be happy to get early console.

YH
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