powerpc: udbg based backend for hvc_console

Timur Tabi timur at freescale.com
Tue Nov 18 06:41:24 EST 2008


On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:54 PM, David Gibson
<david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> This patch adds a new backend for the hvc console based on the
> low-level udbg callbacks.  This effectively implements a working
> runtime console in terms of the simple udbg primitives.  This is kind
> of a hack - since udbg isn't something you really want to be using
> routinely - but it's really useful during bringup.

David, I have a stupid question.  I already have an HVC console driver
that works.  Do I need to do anything, other than enable HVC_UDBG, to
get my hvc console drive to use udbg?

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale



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