[RFC/PATCH 2/3] of: add of_lookup_stdout() utility function

[David Miller]

From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 00:35:24 -0600

> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:32 AM, David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> wrote:
> > From: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
> > Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:02:44 -0600
> >
> >> of_lookup_stdout() is useful for figuring out what device to use as output
> >> for early boot progress messages.  It returns the node pointed to by the
> >> linux,stdout-path property in the chosen node.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
> >
> > On sparc platforms this is obtained differently.  We obtain the 32-bit
> > instance value of "/chosen/stdout" and convert that into a prom device
> > node path using "instance-to-path".
> 
> How about if I modify it to try both methods?

Sure, that would be nice.