Thread (22 messages) 22 messages, 7 authors, 2016-01-13

[RFC 3/5] acpi/serial: add DBG2 earlycon support

From: mark.rutland@arm.com (Mark Rutland)
Date: 2015-09-08 13:10:24
Also in: linux-acpi, linux-devicetree, linux-serial, lkml

On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 01:43:35PM +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote:
The ACPI DBG2 table defines a debug console. Add support for parsing it
and using it to select earlycon destination when no arguments provided.

Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <redacted>
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diff --git a/drivers/acpi/console.c b/drivers/acpi/console.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a985890
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/acpi/console.c
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, Intel Corporation
+ * Copyright (c) 2015, Linaro Ltd.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ */
+
+#define DEBUG
Why?
+#define pr_fmt(fmt) "ACPI: " KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
+
+#include <linux/acpi.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/serial_core.h>
+
+#define NUM_ELEMS(x) (sizeof(x) / sizeof(*x))
Use ARRAY_SIZE (from kernel.h).
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_EARLYCON
+static int use_earlycon __initdata;
+static int __init setup_acpi_earlycon(char *buf)
+{
+	if (!buf)
+		use_earlycon = 1;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("earlycon", setup_acpi_earlycon);
It seems a shame to add this after folding the OF case into the earlycon
code. What necessitates this being a separate early_param? Why is it too
early to parse DBG2?

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diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c b/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c
index 2bda09a..c063cbb 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
 #define pr_fmt(fmt)	KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
 
+#include <linux/acpi.h>
 #include <linux/console.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
@@ -184,12 +185,16 @@ static int __init param_setup_earlycon(char *buf)
 	int err;
 
 	/*
-	 * Just 'earlycon' is a valid param for devicetree earlycons;
-	 * don't generate a warning from parse_early_params() in that case
+	 * Just 'earlycon' is a valid param for devicetree or ACPI earlycons;
+	 * ACPI cannot be parsed yet, so return without action if enabled.
+	 * Otherwise, attempt initialization using DT.
 	 */
-	if (!buf || !buf[0])
-		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OF_FLATTREE))
+	if (!buf || !buf[0]) {
+		if (!acpi_disabled)
+			return 0;
+		else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OF_FLATTREE))
 			return early_init_dt_scan_chosen_serial();
+	}
It would be much nicer if we could handle the ACPI earlycon parsing in
the same place. As above, I assume I'm missing something that prevents
that.

Mark.
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