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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:36:46 -0700
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Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v4 0/2] ACPI: DBGP/DBG2 early console support for
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On 09/27/2012 10:36 PM, Lv Zheng wrote:
> Microsoft Debug Port Table (DBGP or DBG2) is used by the Windows SoC
> platforms to describe their debugging facilities.
> Recent Low Power Intel Architecture (LPIA) platforms have utilized
> this for the SPI UART debug ports that are resident on their debug
> boards.
>
> This patch set enables the DBGP/DBG2 debug ports as an Linux early
> console launcher.
> The SPI UART debug ports support is also refined to co-exist with this
> new usage model.

Hi Len,

You want to take this, or should I?

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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