[PATCH 1/3] ARM: debug: use kconfig choice for selecting DEBUG_LL UART

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Tue Sep 6 06:27:03 EDT 2011


* Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> [110906 02:04]:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 12:28:17PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > Probably the best long term solution is to set up the debug uart based
> > on DT data and initialize it in the uncompress code. Anybody debugging
> > lower level stuff can certainly patch in the ucompress debug_ll code.
> 
> How do you do that before the MMU has been setup?  Are you going to
> write a DT data parser in pure assembly to extract this information?

Don't we already have that with ATAGs to DT support in the DT append
patches? At least it calls fdt_setprop so calling fdt_getprop should
also work. The patch I'm talking about is:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.devicetree/5938 

Tony



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