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authorScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>2015-09-14 19:54:07 -0500
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Docs/kernel-parameters: Add earlycon devicetree usage
This form of the earlycon parameter was added by commit fb11ffe74c794a5 ("of/fdt: add FDT serial scanning for earlycon") without documentation. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
+ When used with no options, the early console is
+ determined by the stdout-path property in device
+ tree's chosen node.
+
cdns,<addr>
Start an early, polled-mode console on a cadence serial
port at the specified address. The cadence serial port