Hi Grant, linux-next has a series for arc_uart (via tty tree) which converts it to generic earlycon and specifies console via /chosen/stdout-path vs. an explicit param in /chose/bootargs 2014-06-24 9da433c0a0b5 ARC: [arcfpga] stdout-path now suffices for earlycon/console This relied on prev commit of yours (from linux next of 20140711), which seem to have disappeared now. 2014-03-27 a9296cf2d0b6 of: Create of_console_check() for selecting a console specified in /chosen 2014-03-27 cfa9cacc5dd3 of: Enable console on serial ports specified by /chosen/stdout-path Is there a specific reason for dropping these patches (or perhaps a merge to be merged). I cherry-picked both but still doesn't work. Can you please advise next step forward, before I go off debugging with those patches in. Thx, -Vineet -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html