From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Eddie Huang <eddie.huang@mediatek.com>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
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Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>,
srv_heupstream@mediatek.com, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
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Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
yh.chen@mediatek.com, Howard Chen <ibanezchen@gmail.com>,
Ashwin Chaugule <ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org>,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
"Joe.C" <yingjoe.chen@mediatek.com>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] tty: serial: Add 8250 earlycon to support noinit option
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:08:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1421078918.31978.32.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3712986.8SuKNvhKTk@wuerfel>
On Mon, 2015-01-12 at 16:35 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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.
Most PC hardware at least needs the port initialised to use it. It won't
have been configured by the firmware in many cases.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-12 16:09 UTC|newest]
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2015-01-12 15:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-01-12 16:08 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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2015-02-02 3:45 ` Peter Hurley
2015-02-02 4:28 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2015-02-02 5:43 ` Peter Hurley
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