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

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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