debug tip after earlycon is closed?

Sebastian Reichel sre at kernel.org
Tue Jul 26 19:17:49 PDT 2016


Hi,

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 10:23:09AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> When the kernel fails to boot and its log console is silent,
> I use earlycon and I often find the cause of error with it.
> 
> But, I have been wondering if there is an easy-to-use
> debug tip which is available after earlycon is disabled.
> 
> I noticed the current mainline would not boot on my ARMv8 board.
> According to the following log, I am guessing something wrong
> is happening after the "bootconsole [uniphier0] disabled" log.
> 
> Is there a good practice to see more log?

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 
	keep_bootcon	[KNL]
			Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
			useful for debugging when something happens in the window
			between unregistering the boot console and initializing
			the real console.

-- Sebastian
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