From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi, spcr: Make SPCR available to x86 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 14:34:29 +0100 Message-ID: <20180212133429.GC25314@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20180118150951.28964-1-prarit@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180118150951.28964-1-prarit@redhat.com> Sender: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Prarit Bhargava Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Bhupesh Sharma , Lv Zheng , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Timur Tabi , graeme.gregory@linaro.org, mark.salter@redhat.com List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 10:09:51AM -0500, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > config ACPI_SPCR_TABLE > + bool "ACPI Serial Port Console Redirection Support" > + default y if X86 > + help > + Enable support for Serial Port Console Redirection (SPCR) Table. > + This table provides information about the configuration of the > + earlycon console. I just got asked this by oldconfig, which left me rather puzzled, WTF does this do? From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: peterz@infradead.org (Peter Zijlstra) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 14:34:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] acpi, spcr: Make SPCR available to x86 In-Reply-To: <20180118150951.28964-1-prarit@redhat.com> References: <20180118150951.28964-1-prarit@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20180212133429.GC25314@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 10:09:51AM -0500, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > config ACPI_SPCR_TABLE > + bool "ACPI Serial Port Console Redirection Support" > + default y if X86 > + help > + Enable support for Serial Port Console Redirection (SPCR) Table. > + This table provides information about the configuration of the > + earlycon console. I just got asked this by oldconfig, which left me rather puzzled, WTF does this do?