Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:26:23 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Early console confusion |
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On 09/22/2010 11:21 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > I think earlycon and earlyprintk have minimal backwards compatibility > problems, since they're mostly for developers. And if we decided > we did need to keep them, they could be undocumented and implemented > on top of "console=" with the appropriate explicit device. >
The problem is that they're actually hard-coded into the firmware of some embedded devices.
-hpa
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