Hi Geert, Just FYI... On Wednesday, August 08, 2018, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > 4. Drop "renesas,scif" from the compatible value in the (not yet > submitted) r7s9210.dtsi (this may have to be clarified in the DT > bindings, although they already say "renesas,scif" is only meant for > ports compatible with the generic version, whatever that means ;-), Just as you would expect, if I drop "renesas,scif" from r7s9210.dtsi, then earlycon works with your RFC patches since now there is only one compatible it can possibly match against. Chris ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{��ǫ����{ay�ʇڙ���f���h������_�(�階�ݢj"��������G����?���&��