tty/serial: pl011: add generic earlycon support
Add earlycon support for the pl011 serial port. This allows enabling
the pl011 for console when early_params are processed. This is based
on the arm64 earlyprintk support and is intended to replace it.
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 4384217..2609ead 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -883,6 +883,7 @@
which are not unmapped.
earlycon= [KNL] Output early console device and options.
+
uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
@@ -892,6 +893,12 @@
(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32).
The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
+ pl011,<addr>
+ Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
+ port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
+ must already be setup and configured. Options are not
+ yet supported.
+
earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM]
earlyprintk=vga
earlyprintk=efi