Re: [PATCH v2] serial: liteuart: Add support for earlycon

[Jiri Slaby]

On 17. 05. 21, 13:54, Stafford Horne wrote:
> Most litex boards using RISC-V soft cores us the sbi earlycon, however
> this is not available for non RISC-V litex SoC's.  This patch enables
> earlycon for liteuart which is available on all Litex SoC's making
> support for earycon debugging more widely available.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Florent Kermarrec <florent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mateusz Holenko <mholenko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Gabriel L. Somlo <gsomlo@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-and-tested-by: Gabriel Somlo <gsomlo@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Changes since v1:
>   - Fixed subject
>   - Fixed ifdef and config issues pointed out by Jiri
>   - Use liteuart_putchar instead of early_liteuart_putc
>
>   .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt         |  5 +++++
>   drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig                    |  1 +
>   drivers/tty/serial/liteuart.c                 | 21 +++++++++++++++++++
>   3 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 04545725f187..2d4a43af8de2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -1084,6 +1084,11 @@
>   			the driver will use only 32-bit accessors to read/write
>   			the device registers.
>   
> +		liteuart,<addr>
> +			Start an early console on a litex serial port at the
> +			specified address. The serial port must already be
> +			setup and configured. Options are not yet supported.
> +
>   		meson,<addr>
>   			Start an early, polled-mode console on a meson serial
>   			port at the specified address. The serial port must
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> index 0c4cd4a348f4..af41e534483c 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> @@ -1550,6 +1550,7 @@ config SERIAL_LITEUART_CONSOLE
>   	bool "LiteUART serial port console support"
>   	depends on SERIAL_LITEUART=y
>   	select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
> +	select SERIAL_EARLYCON
>   	help
>   	  Say 'Y' or 'M' here if you wish to use the FPGA-based LiteUART serial
>   	  controller from LiteX SoC builder as the system console
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/liteuart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/liteuart.c
> index 64842f3539e1..1b75a4bf7c56 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/liteuart.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/liteuart.c
> @@ -370,6 +370,27 @@ static int __init liteuart_console_init(void)
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   console_initcall(liteuart_console_init);
> +
> +static void early_liteuart_write(struct console *console, const char *s,
> +				    unsigned int count)
> +{
> +	struct earlycon_device *device = console->data;
> +	struct uart_port *port = &device->port;
> +
> +	uart_console_write(port, s, count, liteuart_putchar);
> +}
> +
> +static int __init early_liteuart_setup(struct earlycon_device *device,
> +				       const char *options)
> +{
> +	if (!device->port.membase)
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +
> +	device->con->write = early_liteuart_write;
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE(liteuart, "litex,liteuart", early_liteuart_setup);
>   #endif /* CONFIG_SERIAL_LITEUART_CONSOLE */
>   
>   static int __init liteuart_init(void)

thanks,
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js
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