[PATCH v3 05/10] serial: mps2-uart: add support for early console

Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko at gmail.com
Fri Feb 19 01:57:45 PST 2016


On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Vladimir Murzin
<vladimir.murzin at arm.com> wrote:
> On 16/02/16 13:09, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
>>>> +EARLYCON_DECLARE(mps2, mps2_early_console_setup);
>>>> >> +OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE(mps2, "arm,mps2-uart", mps2_early_console_setup);
>>> >
>>> > IIRC Peter Hurley mentioned you don't need to put both anymore, OF_
>>> > one is enough.
>>> >
>> I've just tried with OF_ only and seems it works fine. Thanks for
>> pointing at it!
>>
>
> ..and the reason for that was that I had stdout pointing at uart node.
> Now, while testing v4 I end-up with configuration:
>
> 1) no EARLYCON_DECLARE in mps2-uart.c
> 2) stdout not set
> 3) cmdline has "earlycon=mps2,0x40004000 console=/dev/ttyMPS"
>
> and I don't see bootconsole, but if I avoid 1) everything works fine.
> So, I'd leave EARLYCON_DECLARE in this patch.

Peter, what is your comment on this?


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Andy Shevchenko



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