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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