Without MACH_ option Early printk (DEBUG_LL)

Hiremath, Vaibhav hvaibhav at ti.com
Fri Aug 31 12:06:11 EDT 2012


On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 21:22:26, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Vaibhav Hiremath <hvaibhav at ti.com> [120831 07:55]:
> > Hi Russell & Tony,
> > 
> > AM335X EVM (based on AM33XX device) only supports DT boot mode and
> > doesn't have CONFIG_MACH_AM335XEVM option defined. Some time back during
> > baseport submission we had aligned that, we won't create separate EVM
> > options, killing the board file all-together.
> > 
> > Having said that, the early printk option (DEBUG_LL) is broken, the
> > auto-generated file "./include/generated/mach-types.h" still refers to
> > CONFIG_MACH_AM335XEVM option,
> 
> The way we're heading is that the DEBUG_LL options will only work for
> one hardcoded machine where you need to select the uart type and address
> in Kconfig. Or just patch it in.
>  
> > #ifdef CONFIG_MACH_AM335XEVM
> > # ifdef machine_arch_type
> > #  undef machine_arch_type
> > #  define machine_arch_type     __machine_arch_type
> > # else
> > #  define machine_arch_type     MACH_TYPE_AM335XEVM
> > # endif
> > # define machine_is_am335xevm() (machine_arch_type == MACH_TYPE_AM335XEVM)
> > #else
> > # define machine_is_am335xevm() (0)
> > #endif
> > 
> > 
> > So I am thinking of changing the config_xxx option to SOC_AM33XX or
> > ARCH_OMAP2PLUS, something like below,
> > 
> > am335xevm        SOC_AM33XX          AM335XEVM         3589
> > 
> > OR
> > 
> > am335xevm        ARCH_OMAP2PLUS      AM335XEVM         3589
> > 
> > 
> > Can you comment on this? Based on that I will submit the patch.
> 
> I think that would at minimum break things for autogenerated
> mach-types.h where if only some other non-am335xevm machine is
> selected (like omap-generic) things don't get optimized out any
> longer as they currently do.
> 

Agreed. In that case the first option should work here, right?

Thanks,
Vaibhav



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