On Mon, 2015-01-12 at 16:35 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 12 January 2015 21:08:21 Eddie Huang wrote: > > Add earlycon support not only baudrate option, but also add noinit option. > > If use noinit option, 8250 earlycon will not init serial hardware and use > > loader setting. > > > > Signed-off-by: Eddie Huang <[email protected]> > > I probably missed something in the previous discussion, but why is > "noinit" not just the default? I believe that is how we handle early > serial ports on PowerPC, and I see no downsides to it.
Most PC hardware at least needs the port initialised to use it. It won't have been configured by the firmware in many cases. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
