Peter, On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 06:31:44PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote: > > You say it is a diagnostics message that indicates a misspelling. > > I fail to see what is misspelled, so what does it diagnose? > > Ok, so this is only about the diagnostic message, and not about some > other failure. > > I don't typically describe harmless diagnostics that didn't appear before > as "broken", so I was having trouble believing what I was reading. > > Now that I understand that this is _only_ about a diagnostic message that > didn't appear in previous kernels, I will direct to what I have written > previously multiple times. > > Further, I would ask how _you_ would programmatically distinguish > misspellings amongst the following console strings? > > console=pl012,... > console=_pl011,... > console=pl,... > console=ttyAMA0,... Only the last line gives me output, but with the warning. All others are misspellings but output nothing. The last one gives me a misspelling warning, but it is the one that makes the output work. Obviously this was not tested on an ARM device with a serial console, because it doesn't work there. There should be an intended variant where *nothing* is misspelled in my oftree+kernel commandline. In that case, the system should come up, console comes out of the serial line and earlycon is available. Then I should not get a diagnostic message, becasue I did everything right. Case A: consoleo=ttyAMA0 Result: - system boots with output on intended serial console - warning about having the earlycon misspelled - earlycon not operational, although driver supports it Case B: console=pl011 Result: - no output at all, because system doesn't output to its intented serial console. Case C: ...? Are there other things I'm supposed to do in order to do it right? So both cases A+B are not fully working as intented, right? I'd like to fix it, but in order to do so, I want to learn how it is actually *intended* to work. rsc -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- 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