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

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On 19/02/16 15:46, Peter Hurley wrote:
> On 02/19/2016 01:57 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Vladimir Murzin
>> <vladimir.murzin@xxxxxxx> 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?
> 
> That Vladimir is not testing with linux-next.
> 
> linux-next has common framework for both command line and OF-defined
> earlycons.
> 
> Vladimir, if you pull in Greg's tty-next branch, then just
> 
> OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE(mps2, "arm,mps2-uart", mps2_early_console_setup);
> 
> should enable both command-line and OF-defined earlycons.

Confirmed! No doubt now EARLYCON_DECLARE can be dropped from this patch
safely.

Thanks!
Vladimir

> 
> Regards,
> Peter Hurley
> 
> 

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