linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v3] x86: Setup early console as early as possible

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Date:	Tue, 3 Aug 2010 19:07:47 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v3] x86: Setup early console as early as possible

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:14:38AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> Analyze "console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,115200n8" in i386_start_kernel/x86_64_start_kernel,
> and call setup_early_serial8250_console() to init early serial console.
> 
> only can handle io port kind of 8250. because mmio need ioremap.
> 
> -v2: use boot_params.hdr.version instead of adding another variable, Suggested by hpa
>      update after using x86 memblock patchset
> -v3: x86 memblock can not make into with 2.6.36 now
>      so update this patch to be applied before x86 memblock patchset again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
> ---

Looks good to me, thanks Yinghai!
 
	-- Cyrill
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