[PATCH v2 4/4] Document: Modify 8250 earlycon kernel parameters
Eddie Huang
eddie.huang at mediatek.com
Mon Jan 12 05:08:24 PST 2015
Add options "noinit" to avoid init serial hardware in 8250_early.c
Signed-off-by: Eddie Huang <eddie.huang at mediatek.com>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 4df73da..03a4e9b 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -948,7 +948,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address.
MMIO inter-register address stride is either 8-bit
(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32).
- The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
+ The options have two choices: one is the same as for
+ ttyS, above. The other is noinit, which means don't
+ initialize serial hardware, use the same setting as
+ loader.
pl011,<addr>
Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
--
1.8.1.1.dirty
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