From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:29:57 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] ns16550: tegra: Specify debugging serial port at boot. In-Reply-To: <4F590B25.8090503@wwwdotorg.org> References: <1325890269-5613-1-git-send-email-swarren@nvidia.com> <4F58F5B8.6070402@wwwdotorg.org> <20120308183903.4575B202D69@gemini.denx.de> <4F590B25.8090503@wwwdotorg.org> Message-ID: <20120308212957.DE1CC202D69@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Stephen, In message <4F590B25.8090503@wwwdotorg.org> you wrote: > > > I don't like to see such highly architecture specific stuff in common > > code, especially if it's such a dirty hack like this. > > Are there any hooks where we can do the same thing in SoC-specific code? Not without additional trickery, but I think this is actually a good thing. The method implemented here is but a dirty hack, and should not be used. > The point of this information is to enable the kernel's earlyprintk > support, which runs well before the device tree, or other mechanisms, > are available. Sorry, but I don't buy that this is the only possible way to do that. Or how comes only tegra2 would need that, while all other SoCs and architectures can do without it? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de In the beginning there was nothing. And the Lord said "Let There Be Light!" And still there was nothing, but at least now you could see it.