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Docs/kernel-parameters: Add earlycon devicetree usage
authorScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 00:54:07 +0000 (19:54 -0500)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:59:00 +0000 (15:59 -0600)
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>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

index 945bc0de7f0750acefae3f89695c9b1b510b18be..7a01cc0b0b312258ec8c826afbc3a5fcb1b4c3ce 100644 (file)
@@ -973,6 +973,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
        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