On Dez 04 2018, Anup Patel <anup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This patchset adds RISC-V SBI earlycon and removes RISC-V EARLY_PRINTK. > > We should use earlycon over existing EARLY_PRINTK for SBI console because: > 1. It's a more generic way of implementing early console for debugging > 2. Current RISC-V EARLY_PRINTK is a compile-time option whereas earlycon > is enabled at run-time via kernel parameters. > 3. To use earlycon with SBI, we have to pass "earlycon=sbi" in kernel > parameters. If earlycon kernel parameter is not provided then kernel > boots much faster which is very useful in real-world RISC-V deployments. Why doesn't this earlycon disable itself when the real console kicks in? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."
