Re: [PATCH]serial: make early_uart to use early_prarm instead ofconsole_initcall

[Gerd Hoffmann]

Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Gerd's patch  (console handover) was merged into mainline. it will
> switch from early_printk to normal console in register_console via
> CON_BOOT flags.. ===> only for x86

Tagging boot consoles (aka early_printk) with CON_BOOT certainly makes 
sense.  Just doing that doesn't work for ia64?

What is the point in making that work on x86 additionally to serial 
support in early_printk?  It might make sense to split away the serial 
bits from early_printk.c and move them out of arch/ into -- say -- 
drivers/serial/, so other architectures can use that too and we have 
only one serial earlyprintk implementation in the kernel.  Not sure it 
is worth the effort given the code size.

cheers,
  Gerd


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