[RFC] arm64: dts: ti: introduce a minimal am642 device tree

Wadim Egorov w.egorov at phytec.de
Thu Mar 31 00:19:54 PDT 2022



Am 31.03.22 um 08:58 schrieb Vignesh Raghavendra:
> Hi Wadim,
> 
> On 30/03/22 7:25 pm, Wadim Egorov wrote:
>> Hi Bryan,
>>
>>> +/* (optional) for console */
>>> +&main_uart0 {
>>> +    pinctrl-names = "default";
>>> +    pinctrl-0 = <&main_uart0_pins_default>;
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +/* reserved for firmware */
>>> +&main_uart1 {
>>> +    status = "reserved";
>>> +};
>>
>> k3-image-gen says UART0 is used as a debug interface. See
>>
>>
>> https://git.ti.com/cgit/k3-image-gen/k3-image-gen/tree/soc/am64x/evm/board-cfg.c#n81
>>
>>
>> So it seems that you can enable uart1 here. But people may run into a
>> conflict with uart0 and k3-image-gen compiled with ENABLE_TRACE=1.
>>
>> If I am wrong, can you please clarify why you mark uart1 as reserved.
>>
> 
> We just seem to have same macro shared across multiple SoCs,
> BOARDCFG_TRACE_DST_UART0 means logs are also directed to UART. Instance
> of UART used for logging is platform specific.
> 
> On AM64 SYSFW logs are directed to MAIN UART1 (MAIN UART0 is used for
> linux console). I will work internally and get SYSFW documentation
> updated to reflect the same. Thanks!

OK, thank you for the clarification.

> 
> Regards
> Vignesh



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