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

[Bodo Eggert]

H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/12/2010 09:21 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:

>> earlycon=uart8250 or console=uart8250 should be better than earlyprintk.
>> because it is shared between different archs already.

> console= is crap, because it makes the user keep track of items they
> should not have to deal with directly (unless they want to override the
> defaults), i.e. the specific I/O ports used by the serial ports.

Why does console= require these parameters, if earlyprintk does not?

IMO you should fix console= to not need these parameters unless they cannot
be guessed (in which case earlyprintk cannot guess them, either).

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