[PATCH] tty: serial: atmel: add earlycon support

[Claudiu.Beznea at microchip.com]

Hi Micheal,

On 16.02.2022 18:18, Michael Walle wrote:
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> Add early console support which relies on the bootloader for the
> initialization of the UART.
> Please note, that the compatibles are taken from at91-usart MFD
> driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael at walle.cc>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> index 2d09a89974a2..50fc6d51ff0d 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> @@ -2673,6 +2673,30 @@ static struct console atmel_console = {
>         .data           = &atmel_uart,
>  };
> 
> +static void atmel_serial_early_write(struct console *con, const char *s,
> +                                    unsigned int n)
> +{
> +       struct earlycon_device *dev = con->data;
> +
> +       uart_console_write(&dev->port, s, n, atmel_console_putchar);
> +}
> +
> +static int __init atmel_early_console_setup(struct earlycon_device *device,
> +                                           const char *options)
> +{
> +       if (!device->port.membase)
> +               return -ENODEV;
> +
> +       device->con->write = atmel_serial_early_write;
> +
> +       return 0;
> +}
> +
> +OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE(atmelserial, "atmel,at91rm9200-usart",
> +                   atmel_early_console_setup);
> +OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE(atmelserial, "atmel,at91sam9260-usart",


For consistency with the rest of the naming in this file could you name it
atmel_serial?

Also, it would be good to select SERIAL_EARLYCON in Kconfig to have it
available also for production w/o changing defconfigs.

Thank you,
Claudiu Beznea

> +                   atmel_early_console_setup);
> +
>  #define ATMEL_CONSOLE_DEVICE   (&atmel_console)
> 
>  #else
> --
> 2.30.2
>