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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:18:09 -0700
From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: Add config option to setup early serial console
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:58:08 -0700
> Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:
>
>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>> > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:38:03 -0700
>> > Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>  * Add config option EARLY_SERIAL_CONSOLE to enable early
>> >>    printk's to be directed to the serial console.
>> ...
>> >>
>> >
>> > Confused.  What's wrong with console=uart,...?
>> >
>>
>> The problem is that I need the output really, really early before
>> the console is initialized.
>
> Sorry, I meant earlycon=uart..

the same. it checks earlycon=uart and console=uart...

YH