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| author | Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> | 2014-04-18 17:19:57 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-04-24 16:32:27 -0700 |
| commit | 0d3c673e7881e691991b2a4745bd4f149603baa2 (patch) | |
| tree | 3eb552f130c5ac8654552791e6cb4faf8bc39c98 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | d2fd6810a823bcde1ee232668f5689837aafa772 (diff) | |
tty/serial: pl011: add generic earlycon support
Add earlycon support for the pl011 serial port. This allows enabling
the pl011 for console when early_params are processed. This is based
on the arm64 earlyprintk support and is intended to replace it.
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 43842177b771..2609ead7ff55 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -883,6 +883,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. which are not unmapped. earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options. + uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options] uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options] uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options] @@ -892,6 +893,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32). The options are the same as for ttyS, above. + pl011,<addr> + Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial + port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port + must already be setup and configured. Options are not + yet supported. + earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM] earlyprintk=vga earlyprintk=efi |