Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250_early: Add earlycon for BCM2835 aux uart

[Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 01:33:14PM +0100, matthias.bgg@kernel.org wrote:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE
> +
> +static int __init early_bcm2835aux_setup(struct earlycon_device *device,
> +					const char *options)
> +{
> +	if (!device->port.membase)
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +
> +	device->port.iotype = UPIO_MEM32;
> +	device->port.regshift = 2;
> +
> +	return early_serial8250_setup(device, NULL);
> +}
> +
> +OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE(bcm2835aux, "brcm,bcm2835-aux-uart",
> +		    early_bcm2835aux_setup);
> +#endif

Does this really work?  I also tried to get it working recently and
the system just hung on boot.  Looking at it with a JTAG debugger
showed that the bcm2835aux registers were inaccessible because
the mini UART wasn't enabled in the AUXENB register.

Maybe if you use OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE, the firmware recognizes that
serial1 is set as stdout-path and performs enablement of the mini UART?
Or are you using U-Boot which perhaps does the enablement?

I also saw in the JTAG debugger that the uartclk member contained
an incorrect value, so I'd expect that it has to be set as well in
early_bcm2835aux_setup().

I'll see to it that I give this patch a whirl when I return to the
office next week.

Thanks,

Lukas