Early console confusion

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Wed Sep 22 2010 - 11:13:41 EST


Can somebody explain the differences between

earlycon=uart,...
earlycon=uart8250,...
earlyprintk=serial,...
console=uart,...
console=uart8250,...

I'm not really convinced we need them all, and it's getting a
little confusing.

Bjorn
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