On 05/07/2013 08:19 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 7 May 2013 05:46, Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au> wrote: >> Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: >>> That all looks like sensible QEMU implementation possibilities >>> but it seems to be a bit of a non-sequitur from "how do we >>> tell the kernel to actually use this?" >> >> You enable the feature in the virtio console device, and a kernel >> compiled with EARLY_PRINTK will use it? > > Well, at the moment EARLY_PRINTK is hardcoded to > "use some specific UART or equivalent selected at > compile time". So the equivalent presumably would > be to hard-compile "use virtio-console", but then > how does that code know where the virtio-console > is in the address space?
arm64 uses a kernel argument. Christopher -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by the Linux Foundation. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
