Re: [PATCH] Enable console on PCI serial devices

From: Paul Bolle
Date: Wed Oct 15 2008 - 05:13:39 EST


On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 17:30 -0600, n0ano@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> - uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
> - uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
> + uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options[,clk]]
> + uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options[,clk]]
> Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
> UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
> switching to the matching ttyS device later. The
> - options are the same as for ttyS, above.
> + "options" are the same as for ttyS, above. "clk"
> + is the crystal frequency which defaults to 1843200
> + (115200 * 16) but some hardware uses different
> + crystal.

Shouldn't the earlycon entry be updated for the "clk" stuff too?


Paul Bolle

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