Re: [PATCH 5/8] serial: imx: add $global.bootm.earlycon fixup support

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On 23.05.22 13:25, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 01:10:13PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 23.05.22 13:04, Sascha Hauer wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 11:25:23AM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
>>>> Allow barebox compute a suitable earlycon parameter.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/serial/serial_imx.c | 2 ++
>>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/serial/serial_imx.c b/drivers/serial/serial_imx.c
>>>> index 6a933c930e9b..cf9c3f02a7ef 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/serial/serial_imx.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/serial/serial_imx.c
>>>> @@ -234,6 +234,8 @@ static int imx_serial_probe(struct device_d *dev)
>>>>  	cdev->flush = imx_serial_flush;
>>>>  	cdev->setbrg = imx_serial_setbaudrate;
>>>>  	cdev->linux_console_name = "ttymxc";
>>>> +	cdev->linux_earlycon_name = "ec_imx6q";
>>>
>>> "ec_imx6q" sounds wrong for the older i.MX SoCs. I don't know how
>>> OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE works, but this:
>>>
>>> OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE(ec_imx6q, "fsl,imx6q-uart", imx_console_early_setup);
>>> OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE(ec_imx21, "fsl,imx21-uart", imx_console_early_setup);
>>>
>>> looks like it matches a device tree compatible entry. For the older SoCs
>>> you should likely use "ec_imx21".
>>
>> Oh, I can fix this for v2.
>>
>>> Anyway, plain "earlycon" just works, why the hassle?
>>
>> Not all boards have a DT with stdout-path or probe from device tree.
>> I ran into this issue three times now (twice DT-enabled boards, but no
>> stdout-path, once on x86 with no DT) and figured it would be nifty
>> if barebox could just optionally generate it.
> 
> Can't we set the stdout-path property in barebox?

We could, but that doesn't help on x86.

> 
> Sascha
> 


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