[PATCH 7/8] arm: mvebu: add another earlyprintk Kconfig option

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Jun 5 03:05:00 EDT 2013


In order to support both old and new bootloaders, we add a new Kconfig
option for the earlyprintk UART selection. The existing option allows
to work with old bootloaders (that keep the internal registers mapped
at 0xd0000000), while the newly introduced option allows to work with
new bootloaders (that remap the internal registers at 0xf1000000).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig.debug         | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 arch/arm/include/debug/mvebu.S |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug b/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug
index 1d41908..e6a6ab1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug
@@ -303,12 +303,37 @@ choice
 		  their output to the serial port on MSM 8960 devices.
 
 	config DEBUG_MVEBU_UART
-		bool "Kernel low-level debugging messages via MVEBU UART"
+		bool "Kernel low-level debugging messages via MVEBU UART (old bootloaders)"
 		depends on ARCH_MVEBU
 		help
 		  Say Y here if you want kernel low-level debugging support
 		  on MVEBU based platforms.
 
+		  This option should be used with the old bootloaders
+		  that left the internal registers mapped at
+		  0xd0000000. As of today, this is the case on
+		  platforms such as the Globalscale Mirabox or the
+		  Plathome OpenBlocks AX3, when using the original
+		  bootloader.
+
+		  If the wrong DEBUG_MVEBU_UART* option is selected,
+		  when u-boot hands over to the kernel, the system
+		  silently crashes, with no serial output at all.
+
+	config DEBUG_MVEBU_UART_ALTERNATE
+		bool "Kernel low-level debugging messages via MVEBU UART (new bootloaders)"
+		depends on ARCH_MVEBU
+		help
+		  Say Y here if you want kernel low-level debugging support
+		  on MVEBU based platforms.
+
+		  This option should be used with the new bootloaders
+		  that remap the internal registers at 0xf1000000.
+
+		  If the wrong DEBUG_MVEBU_UART* option is selected,
+		  when u-boot hands over to the kernel, the system
+		  silently crashes, with no serial output at all.
+
 	config DEBUG_NOMADIK_UART
 		bool "Kernel low-level debugging messages via NOMADIK UART"
 		depends on ARCH_NOMADIK
@@ -632,7 +657,8 @@ config DEBUG_LL_INCLUDE
 				 DEBUG_IMX51_UART || \
 				 DEBUG_IMX53_UART ||\
 				 DEBUG_IMX6Q_UART
-	default "debug/mvebu.S" if DEBUG_MVEBU_UART
+	default "debug/mvebu.S" if DEBUG_MVEBU_UART || \
+				   DEBUG_MVEBU_UART_ALTERNATE
 	default "debug/mxs.S" if DEBUG_IMX23_UART || DEBUG_IMX28_UART
 	default "debug/nomadik.S" if DEBUG_NOMADIK_UART
 	default "debug/omap2plus.S" if DEBUG_OMAP2PLUS_UART
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/debug/mvebu.S b/arch/arm/include/debug/mvebu.S
index df191af..6517311 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/debug/mvebu.S
+++ b/arch/arm/include/debug/mvebu.S
@@ -11,7 +11,12 @@
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.
 */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MVEBU_UART_ALTERNATE
+#define ARMADA_370_XP_REGS_PHYS_BASE	0xf1000000
+#else
 #define ARMADA_370_XP_REGS_PHYS_BASE	0xd0000000
+#endif
+
 #define ARMADA_370_XP_REGS_VIRT_BASE	0xfec00000
 
 	.macro	addruart, rp, rv, tmp
-- 
1.8.1.2




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