Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] arm64: dts: Add Qualcomm MSM8916 SoC and evaluation board dts

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On Mar 13, 2015, at 11:25 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 03:50:42PM +0000, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> 
>> On Mar 13, 2015, at 5:52 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>>> +/ {
>>>> +	chosen {
>>>> +		stdout-path = &blsp1_uart2;
>>>> +	};
>>> 
>>> It would be good if we had the configuration too (see
>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt), as that avoids any
>>> reliance on kernel defaults.
>>> 
>>> You can refer to an alias, so this could be:
>>> 
>>> aliases {
>>> 	serial0 = &blsp1_uart2;
>>> };
>>> 
>>> chosen {
>>> 	stdout-path = "serial0:115200n8";
>>> };
>>> 
>>> ...assuming that 115200n8 is correct for your UART, of course.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> […]
>> 
>> Where is the code that actually handles this parsing?  I’m not see it
>> in early_init_dt_scan_chosen_serial and I don’t believe
>> fdt_path_offset does anything special with ‘:'
> 
> Take a look at commit 7914a7c5651a5161 ("of: support passing console options with
> stdout-path").
> 
> Early on of_alias_scan will find the options and in of_console_check
> we'll call add_preferred_console as appropriate. That'll be called in
> uart_add_one_port.

Ok, but earlycon dt code doesn’t utilize this, as its setup is before we unflatten the dt.

So it breaks earlycon parsing right now, I’ll look at fixing that.

- k

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