From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: schwab@suse.de, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] Documentation: document earlycon without options for more platforms
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 09:15:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190917071523.16672-1-hch@lst.de> (raw)
The earlycon options without arguments is supposed to work on all
device tree platforms, not just arm64.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
Changes since v1:
- add comma, fix typo
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 4c1971960afa..d5956c29b93b 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -977,12 +977,10 @@
earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
- [ARM64] The early console is determined by the
- stdout-path property in device tree's chosen node,
- or determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
-
- [X86] When used with no options the early console is
- determined by the ACPI SPCR table.
+ When used with no options, the early console is
+ determined by stdout-path property in device tree's
+ chosen node or the ACPI SPCR table if supported by
+ the platform.
cdns,<addr>[,options]
Start an early, polled-mode console on a Cadence
--
2.20.1
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