[PATCH] arm/imx: use Kconfig choice for low-level debug UART selection

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sun Aug 21 14:33:12 EDT 2011


On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 02:28:46PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Aug 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > Tough.  That's the way it is and it has to be lived with.  Early board
> > bring up has absolutely nothing to do with users.  If users are doing
> > early board bringup, they are kernel developers by definition.
> 
> So be it if you insist.  We'll then have to invent a better 
> infrastructure in parallel to be able to do early enough serial output 
> for users, both for earlyprintk and the zImage decompressor.

"Users" have nothing to do with it.

In any case, that will probably be _much_ better because it can be
independent of the debugging code to be used for sort out the *assembly*
part of the kernel boot.



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