Re: [PATCH 1/1] tty/serial: to support 8250 earlycon can be enabled independently

2016-05-17 Thread Alan
> > I'm confused; you want the possibility of earlycon but _not_ a > > normal serial console? > Our downstream customers want add some private functions into > 8250.ko. So that, we can not pre-build the 8250 driver into Image. The starting point would be to share that functionality with the comm

Re: [PATCH 1/1] tty/serial: to support 8250 earlycon can be enabled independently

2016-05-16 Thread Leizhen (ThunderTown)
On 2016/5/16 23:40, Peter Hurley wrote: > On 05/16/2016 04:35 AM, Zhen Lei wrote: >> Sometimes, we may only use SSH to login, and build 8250 uart driver as a >> ko(insmod if needed). But the earlycon may still be necessary, because >> the kernel boot process may take a long time. It's not good to

Re: [PATCH 1/1] tty/serial: to support 8250 earlycon can be enabled independently

2016-05-16 Thread Peter Hurley
On 05/16/2016 04:35 AM, Zhen Lei wrote: > Sometimes, we may only use SSH to login, and build 8250 uart driver as a > ko(insmod if needed). But the earlycon may still be necessary, because > the kernel boot process may take a long time. It's not good to display > nothing but ask people to wait patie

[PATCH 1/1] tty/serial: to support 8250 earlycon can be enabled independently

2016-05-16 Thread Zhen Lei
Sometimes, we may only use SSH to login, and build 8250 uart driver as a ko(insmod if needed). But the earlycon may still be necessary, because the kernel boot process may take a long time. It's not good to display nothing but ask people to wait patiently. In addition, the 8250.ko can not be worke