diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
index 780908d435577e7de79a2f5b4df3a32b1699d729..7fa2c78d19896f8561ea590e43ec41e382ba0580 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
@@ -502,15 +502,14 @@ config SERIAL_IMX
 	  can enable its onboard serial port by enabling this option.
 
 config SERIAL_IMX_CONSOLE
-	bool "Console on IMX serial port"
-	depends on SERIAL_IMX=y
+	tristate "Console on IMX serial port"
+	depends on SERIAL_IMX
 	select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
-	select SERIAL_EARLYCON if OF
 	help
 	  If you have enabled the serial port on the Freescale IMX
-	  CPU you can make it the console by answering Y to this option.
+	  CPU you can make it the console by answering Y/M to this option.
 
-	  Even if you say Y here, the currently visible virtual console
+	  Even if you say Y/M here, the currently visible virtual console
 	  (/dev/tty0) will still be used as the system console by default, but
 	  you can alter that using a kernel command line option such as
 	  "console=ttymxc0". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
index ba4e35229b3648dd6181d2b75519e14dfa414bc7..ce8c472cf385baf6c73bb4d761c04f19d541d92d 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ static inline int imx_uart_is_imx6q(struct imx_port *sport)
 /*
  * Save and restore functions for UCR1, UCR2 and UCR3 registers
  */
-#if defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_IMX_CONSOLE)
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SERIAL_IMX_CONSOLE)
 static void imx_uart_ucrs_save(struct imx_port *sport,
 			       struct imx_port_ucrs *ucr)
 {
@@ -1979,7 +1979,7 @@ static const struct uart_ops imx_uart_pops = {
 
 static struct imx_port *imx_uart_ports[UART_NR];
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_IMX_CONSOLE
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SERIAL_IMX_CONSOLE)
 static void imx_uart_console_putchar(struct uart_port *port, int ch)
 {
 	struct imx_port *sport = (struct imx_port *)port;
@@ -2176,39 +2176,6 @@ static struct console imx_uart_console = {
 
 #define IMX_CONSOLE	&imx_uart_console
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_OF
-static void imx_uart_console_early_putchar(struct uart_port *port, int ch)
-{
-	struct imx_port *sport = (struct imx_port *)port;
-
-	while (imx_uart_readl(sport, IMX21_UTS) & UTS_TXFULL)
-		cpu_relax();
-
-	imx_uart_writel(sport, ch, URTX0);
-}
-
-static void imx_uart_console_early_write(struct console *con, const char *s,
-					 unsigned count)
-{
-	struct earlycon_device *dev = con->data;
-
-	uart_console_write(&dev->port, s, count, imx_uart_console_early_putchar);
-}
-
-static int __init
-imx_console_early_setup(struct earlycon_device *dev, const char *opt)
-{
-	if (!dev->port.membase)
-		return -ENODEV;
-
-	dev->con->write = imx_uart_console_early_write;
-
-	return 0;
-}
-OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE(ec_imx6q, "fsl,imx6q-uart", imx_console_early_setup);
-OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE(ec_imx21, "fsl,imx21-uart", imx_console_early_setup);
-#endif
-
 #else
 #define IMX_CONSOLE	NULL
 #endif