[PATCH 0/2] Allow using machine ID for DEBUG_LL macros

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Tony Lindgren wrote:

> * Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net> [110203 18:01]:
> > On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > Here are two patches that allow using machine ID for DEBUG_LL
> > > macros by adding a new macro inituart.
> > 
> > This won't work with the device tree support as the machine ID is then 
> > replaced with a catch-it-all-with-dt-support machine ID.
> 
> Hmm, maybe for device tree we could only have it initialized later
> on by setting up custom early_printk in early_printk.c based on the
> device tree data or machine ID?
> 
> It won't work very early then though.. If we want it to work early
> we could allocate some fixed memory chunk for addruart etc functions
> for which the bootloader just passes addresses.

Nah... Let's keep relationship between the kernel and bootloaders to a 
strict minimum.  If necessary we'll find a way to extract that info from 
the dtb in assembly.  I'd suggest just continuing this excellent cleanup 
for the time being.


Nicolas