Re: [PATCH -v3] x86: Setup early console as early as possible

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Tue Aug 03 2010 - 11:08:00 EST


On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:14:38AM -0700, 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.
>
> -v2: use boot_params.hdr.version instead of adding another variable, Suggested by hpa
> update after using x86 memblock patchset
> -v3: x86 memblock can not make into with 2.6.36 now
> so update this patch to be applied before x86 memblock patchset again.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Looks good to me, thanks Yinghai!

-- Cyrill
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