stdout-path (was Re: [PATCH 3/3 v6] ARC: hsdk: initial port for HSDK board)

[Vineet Gupta]

On 06/26/2017 07:25 PM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> > > +
> > > +       chosen {
> > > +               bootargs = "earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0xf0005000,115200n8 console=ttyS0,115200n8 debug print-fatal-signals=1";
> > Use stdout-path for the console. Really, the bootargs should be blank
> > and populated by the bootloader especially debug options.
> Agree but in case of devboards we quite often disable bootloader and
> load Linux image in memory via JTAG. So in that case bootargs make perfect sense IMH

FWIW, I tried this 2 years ago (v4.1 ish) per pestering by Arnd but at the time I 
had to add some hacks in early 8250 driver to get this working for ARC.

See,
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg17742.html
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg17747.html

We can certainly revisit this now.

-Vineet