Re: [PATCH] serial/sifive: select SERIAL_EARLYCON

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Mon Sep 16 2019 - 15:40:15 EST


On Sep 16 2019, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 23:42:53 PDT (-0700), Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 01:40:27PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>>> OpenEmbedded passes "earlycon=sbi", which I can find in the doumentation.
>>> I can't find anything about just "earlycon". I've sent a patch adding sbi
>>> to the list of earlycon arguments.
>>
>> earlycon without arguments is documented, although just for ARM64.
>> I can send a patch to update it to properly cover all DT platforms
>> in addition.
>
> Thanks. I've kind of lost track of the thread, but assuming that does the
> "automatically pick an earlycon" stuff then that's probably what we should
> be using in the distros.

Except that it doesn't work.

Andreas.

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