[PATCHv2 05/15] ARM: mvebu: add stdout-path to all armada-*.dts

Rob Herring robherring2 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 08:50:26 PST 2015


On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Gregory CLEMENT
<gregory.clement at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On 20/02/2015 18:04, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>> This commit adds the stdout-path property in /chosen for all Armada
>> boards that were not yet carrying this property.
>
> I though the main motivation for using the stdout-path property was
> for removing the earlyprintk in the command line. Arnd told that there
> should be a mean to use stdout-path instead of earlyprintk.
>
> So what about going further and removing "earlyprintk" in the same time?

Not exactly, stdout-path allows for removing "console" from the
command line. earlyprintk is a debug/developer option, so it should
not be in a default command line IMO.

So bootargs should be removed entirely.

Rob



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