linux-kernel - Re: earlycon: no match?

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1505081708540.1538@eddie.linux-mips.org>
Date:	Fri, 8 May 2015 17:11:36 +0100 (BST)
From:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
To:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
cc:	Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@...gutronix.de>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: earlycon: no match?

On Thu, 7 May 2015, Peter Hurley wrote:

> IOW, command line parameters of the form:
> 
> 	earlycon=uart8250,...
> 
> does not perform earlycon-to-console handoff.
[...]
> IOW, command line parameters of the form:
> 
> 	console=uart8250,...
> 
> performs earlycon-to-console handoff.

 OK, thanks.  I missed this detail previously and understood the two 
parameters had been since 2007 strict aliases to each other.  Thanks for 
your patience to explain it to me.

  Maciej
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