linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: add earlycon documentation for RISC-V

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Message-ID: <20191017161038.GA9953@lst.de>
Date:   Thu, 17 Oct 2019 18:10:38 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: add earlycon documentation
 for RISC-V

On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 12:53:50PM -0700, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> 
> Kernels booting on RISC-V can specify "earlycon" with no options on
> the Linux command line, and the generic DT earlycon support will query
> the "chosen/stdout-path" property (if present) to determine which
> early console device to use.  Document this appropriately in the
> admin-guide.

Jon already applied a patch from me removing the bogus arch restrictions
on the earlycon without arguments documentation, so this should not
be required.