Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:51:26 +0100 | From | Andy Whitcroft <> | Subject | 2.6.22-rc4-mm2: serial-convert-early_uart-to-earlycon-for-8250 |
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The following patch to 2.6.22-rc4-mm2 seems to update the early console support for the 8250 uarts:
serial-convert-early_uart-to-earlycon-for-8250
This moved from naming the 8250 uart 'uart' to 'uart8250' in the console= kernel parameter. While this is sensible long term to allow other uarts to be supported sanely this puts existing users with existing console configurations in a difficult position as their console output just stops appearing. It makes life almost impossible for any automatic testers as they now need to have different command lines for different versions of the kernel.
I think we need to maintain 'uart' as an alias here.
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