On Mon 22 Sep 2008 11:28, Mike Frysinger pondered:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 04:54,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Revision 5325 Author sonicz Date 2008-09-22 03:54:57 -0500 (Mon, 22 Sep
> > 2008)
> >
> > Log Message
> >
> > Task[#2424] Clean serial console and early prink code.
> >
> > Modified Paths
> >
> > trunk/arch/blackfin/Kconfig.debug
> > trunk/drivers/serial/bfin_5xx.c
> >
> > Diff
> >
> > Modified: trunk/arch/blackfin/Kconfig.debug (5324 => 5325)
> >
> > --- trunk/arch/blackfin/Kconfig.debug       2008-09-22 08:22:46 UTC (rev 
> > 5324)
> > +++ trunk/arch/blackfin/Kconfig.debug       2008-09-22 08:54:57 UTC (rev 
> > 5325)
> > @@ -184,6 +184,7 @@
> >  config EARLY_PRINTK
> >     bool "Early printk"
> >     default n
> > +   select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
> >     help
> >       This option enables special console drivers which allow the kernel
> >       to print messages very early in the bootup process.
> >
> 
> is this a real dependency ?  i thought earlyprintk worked on the UART
> even without it being the console ?

The specific uart which you pass to earlyprintk does not need to be the 
console UART, but I think the serial core still needs to be there to handle 
various things...
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