[PATCH v4 2/4] arm64: dts: Add Qualcomm MSM8916 SoC and evaluation board dts

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 03:50:42PM +0000, Kumar Gala wrote:

On Mar 13, 2015, at 5:52 AM, Mark Rutland [off-list ref] wrote:

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+/ {
+	chosen {
+		stdout-path = &blsp1_uart2;
+	};

It would be good if we had the configuration too (see
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt), as that avoids any
reliance on kernel defaults.

You can refer to an alias, so this could be:

aliases {
	serial0 = &blsp1_uart2;
};

chosen {
	stdout-path = "serial0:115200n8";
};

...assuming that 115200n8 is correct for your UART, of course.


[?]

Where is the code that actually handles this parsing?  I?m not see it
in early_init_dt_scan_chosen_serial and I don?t believe
fdt_path_offset does anything special with ?:'

Take a look at commit 7914a7c5651a5161 ("of: support passing console options with
stdout-path").

Early on of_alias_scan will find the options and in of_console_check
we'll call add_preferred_console as appropriate. That'll be called in
uart_add_one_port.

I?ll kill off usage of skeleton.dtsi

Cheers.

Mark.