diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c b/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c
index 407a8e26f0a7f2bae0748e5995b65816f9e5a45f..5df2869c874baced33de00a78a7b693f3237ea0f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c
@@ -58,7 +58,19 @@ static void parse_earlyprintk(void)
 		if (arg[pos] == ',')
 			pos++;
 
-		if (!strncmp(arg + pos, "ttyS", 4)) {
+		/*
+		 * make sure we have
+		 *	"serial,0x3f8,115200"
+		 *	"serial,ttyS0,115200"
+		 *	"ttyS0,115200"
+		 */
+		if (pos == 7 && !strncmp(arg + pos, "0x", 2)) {
+			port = simple_strtoull(arg + pos, &e, 16);
+			if (port == 0 || arg + pos == e)
+				port = DEFAULT_SERIAL_PORT;
+			else
+				pos = e - arg;
+		} else if (!strncmp(arg + pos, "ttyS", 4)) {
 			static const int bases[] = { 0x3f8, 0x2f8 };
 			int idx = 0;