[PATCH V3] ACPI: Add acpi=nospcr to disable ACPI SPCR as default console on arm64

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Sat Jun 22 10:05:02 PDT 2024


On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 05:35:21PM +0800, Liu Wei wrote:
> For varying privacy and security reasons, sometimes we would like to
> completely silence the serial console, and only enable it when needed.
> 
> But there are many existing systems that depend on this console,
> so add acpi=nospcr for this situation.

Maybe it is just me, but i see nospcr and my brain expands it to "no
speaker". Adding to that, your commit message says "completely
silence"...

> +			nospcr -- disable ACPI SPCR as default console on ARM64
> +			For ARM64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on", "acpi=force" or
> +			"acpi=nospcr" are available
> +			For RISCV64, ONLY "acpi=off", "acpi=on" or "acpi=force"
> +			are available

How about putting the word 'serial' in here somewhere, just to give
users an additional clue you are not talking about a speaker, CTRL-G
etc.

	Andrew



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