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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>, barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Earlycon command line option support
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 09:45:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190313084515.3uae3luepv4ixqii@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1552383817.2453.25.camel@pengutronix.de>

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:43:37AM +0100, Lucas Stach wrote:
> Hi Andrey,
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 12.03.2019, 00:45 -0700 schrieb Andrey Smirnov:
> > Everyone:
> > 
> > This small series is something I came up with to avoid having to look
> > up the syntax and manually specify earlycon kernel command line option
> > every time I needed it. The series is purely optional in case I am not
> > the only one who thinks this is useful.
> > 
> > Feedback is welcome!
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Andrey Smirnov
> > 
> > Andrey Smirnov (3):
> >   console: Add plumbing to expose earlycon/bootconsole parameter
> >   serial: i.MX: Add code to export "earlycon" setting
> >   serial: lpuart: Add code to export "earlycon" setting
> > 
> >  Documentation/user/variables.rst |  1 +
> >  common/console.c                 | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/serial/serial_imx.c      |  3 +++
> >  drivers/serial/serial_lpuart.c   |  1 +
> >  include/console.h                |  1 +
> >  5 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
> 
> I don't think any of this is necessary. For DT based platforms earlycon
> will use the console specified via the "stdout-path" property, so it's
> entirely sufficient to add "earlycon" to the kernel command line and
> the kernel will do the right thing. No need for any more elaborate
> kernel commandline options.

I'm with Lucas here unless some good arguments come up why this is
needed.

Sascha

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      reply	other threads:[~2019-03-13  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-12  7:45 Andrey Smirnov
2019-03-12  7:45 ` [PATCH 1/3] console: Add plumbing to expose earlycon/bootconsole parameter Andrey Smirnov
2019-03-12  7:45 ` [PATCH 2/3] serial: i.MX: Add code to export "earlycon" setting Andrey Smirnov
2019-03-12  7:45 ` [PATCH 3/3] serial: lpuart: " Andrey Smirnov
2019-03-12  9:43 ` [PATCH 0/3] Earlycon command line option support Lucas Stach
2019-03-13  8:45   ` Sascha Hauer [this message]

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