Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:10:15 +0200 | From | Sascha Hauer <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/5] of: Automatic console registration cleanups |
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:08:00AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a series that I've been playing with over the last few days to > clean up the selection of default console devices when using the device > tree. The device tree defines a way of specifying the console by using a > "stdout-path" property in the /chosen node, but very few drivers > actually attempt to use that data, and so for most platforms there needs > to be a "console=" line in the command line if a serial port is intended > to be used as the console. > > With this series, if there is a /chosen/stdout-path property, and if > that property points to a serial port node, then when the serial driver > registers the port, the core uart_add_one_port() function will notice > and if no console= argument was provided then add it as a preferred > console. > > I've not tested this very extensively yet, but I want to get some > feedback before I go further.
I gave it a test on i.MX. It works as expected with both linux,stdout-path and stdout-path. Specifying a console on the commandline still works and overrides the devicetree setting.
Tested-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Sascha
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