diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
index 5a2cf9686b20..fc99bb09e045 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
@@ -73,17 +73,17 @@ config SERIAL_AMBA_PL011_CONSOLE
 	  your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the
 	  kernel at boot time.)
 
-config SERIAL_EARLYCON_ARM_SEMIHOST
-	bool "Early console using ARM semihosting"
+config SERIAL_EARLYCON_SEMIHOST
+	bool "Early console using Arm compatible semihosting"
 	depends on ARM64 || ARM || RISCV
 	select SERIAL_CORE
 	select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
 	select SERIAL_EARLYCON
 	help
-	  Support for early debug console using ARM semihosting. This enables
-	  the console before standard serial driver is probed. This is enabled
-	  with "earlycon=smh" on the kernel command line. The console is
-	  enabled when early_param is processed.
+	  Support for early debug console using Arm compatible semihosting.
+	  This enables the console before standard serial driver is probed.
+	  This is enabled with "earlycon=smh" on the kernel command line.
+	  The console is enabled when early_param is processed.
 
 config SERIAL_EARLYCON_RISCV_SBI
 	bool "Early console using RISC-V SBI"
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/Makefile b/drivers/tty/serial/Makefile
index 238a9557b487..cd9afd9e3018 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE) += serial_core.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_SERIAL_EARLYCON) += earlycon.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_SERIAL_EARLYCON_ARM_SEMIHOST) += earlycon-arm-semihost.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_SERIAL_EARLYCON_SEMIHOST) += earlycon-semihost.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SERIAL_EARLYCON_RISCV_SBI) += earlycon-riscv-sbi.o
 
 # These Sparc drivers have to appear before others such as 8250
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon-arm-semihost.c b/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon-semihost.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/tty/serial/earlycon-arm-semihost.c
rename to drivers/tty/serial/earlycon-semihost.c