[PATCH 1/2] ARM: vexpress: add debug UARTs to DEBUG_LL kconfig choice

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Thu Jul 5 05:42:18 EDT 2012


On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:38:00AM +0100, Pawel Moll wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 10:33 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, thanks. We have similar code in mach/uncompress.h -- how do you feel
> > about using the same approach there? I've seen the decompressor explode due
> > to the mrc and it's a royal pain to track down.
> 
> This was the reason my Kconfig options weren't in DEBUG_LL but in
> ARCH_VEXPRESS - to serve both decompressor and early console. But as it
> was NAKed I'm considering several options, one (the simplest) of them is
> printing nothing in the decompressor unless DEBUG_LL is selected.

Indeed, that's the option I'd favour but I thought I'd check whether you
were alright with that before updating the patch.

Will



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