[PATCH v2 1/4] tty: serial: Add 8250 earlycon to support noinit option
From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: 2015-01-12 15:36:29
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On Monday 12 January 2015 21:08:21 Eddie Huang wrote:
Add earlycon support not only baudrate option, but also add noinit option. If use noinit option, 8250 earlycon will not init serial hardware and use loader setting. Signed-off-by: Eddie Huang <eddie.huang@mediatek.com>
I probably missed something in the previous discussion, but why is "noinit" not just the default? I believe that is how we handle early serial ports on PowerPC, and I see no downsides to it. Arnd