Re: [PATCH] x86,setup: add serial_console_port_base in boot_params

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/15/2010 03:27 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> to save the early_serial_base.
> 
> Also bootloader could fill that field, so setup code could reuse it.
> 
> decompress code could reuse early serial console from setup code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 

What's the point with this over what we currently have?

	-hpa

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