Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:12:11 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86,setup: add serial_console_port_base in boot_params |
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On 07/15/2010 03:27 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > to save the early_serial_base. > > Also bootloader could fill that field, so setup code could reuse it. > > decompress code could reuse early serial console from setup code. > > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> >
What's the point with this over what we currently have?
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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