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

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Dec 24 07:19:56 EST 2008


On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 14:11 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> The udbg console is currently always enabled for platforms selecting
> the PPC_UDBG_16550 symbol (needed to create platform devices for
> 8250 SoC UARTs from DT).
> 
> Now, the udbg console is nice for debugging as it works so early, but
> it also has a number of disadvantages:

 .../...

I don't think that's the right approach.

I think a better one is to make a config option that selects whether the
udbg console is registered. ie. CONFIG_UDBG_CONSOLE which would affect
the calls sites in setup_32/64.c or the register_udbg_console() function
itself in udbg.c

Ben.




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