[PATCH RESEND] powerpc: make udbg 16550 boot console configurable for EMBEDDED

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Dec 24 04:24:22 EST 2008


Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> - It doesn't respect console= and still outputs console messages even
>   if console isn't ttySx (E.G. if CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE is enabled in
>   U-Boot which sets 'console='

I believe it uses /chosen/linux,stdout-path; u-boot could clear that if 
silent console is desired.

> As that isn't always desirable, add a PPC_UDBG_16550_CONSOLE kconfig
> symbol to let the user disable it (only visible if CONFIG_EMBEDDED).

There's an existing CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG that it could depend on instead.

-Scott



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