From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755009Ab0IVPNi (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:13:38 -0400 Received: from g1t0028.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.35]:36601 "EHLO g1t0028.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754894Ab0IVPNg (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:13:36 -0400 From: Bjorn Helgaas To: mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yinghai@kernel.org, just.for.lkml@googlemail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@linux.intel.com Subject: Early console confusion Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:12:44 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.32-24-generic; KDE/4.4.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <4C7B0578.8090807@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009220912.45360.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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