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

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Rob Herring,

On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:42:43 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:

> > Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work at all:
> 
> This must have all been tested on QEMU (or Fast Models?) which ignores
> baud rate.


Ok.

> >    So it gets the right port name, the right idx, just the options are
> >    null. It shouldn't be an issue since the serial port is already
> >    initialized by the bootloader.
> 
> I think the default baudrate is 9600, not what the bootloader set.

That might explain the issue then.

> You need the full path here though. But garbage should not crash things.

Indeed, I was surprised that a different DT string was crashing the
kernel.


> > It is worth mentioning that this also happens with
> >
> >      stdout-path = "uart0:115200n8";
> >
> > which was explicitly suggested by Mark in his e-mail. uart0 is an alias
> > to the proper DT node, since stdout-path = &uart0; works almost fine.
> 
> Mark forgot the '&'. So does 'stdout-path = "&uart0:115200n8";' work?

I don't have the board at hand right now, will try this on Tuesday when
coming back to the office. Thanks for the suggestion!

Best regards,

Thomas
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