Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] printk: fix zero-valued printk timestamps in early boot

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Andrew,

On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 at 13:17, Andrew Murray
<amurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've tested this on my PocketBeagle2...

> That shows nearly a second of boot time prior to timestamps. In this
> case it's due to a slow console as it's using earlycon
> ("earlycon=ns16550a,mmio32,0x02860000"), without that I get:

"earlycon" (no parameters) should be sufficient, once you have
added the missing serial console speed to chosen/stdout-path in
arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62-pocketbeagle2.dts.

BeaglePlay already has it:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.0.1/source/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am625-beagleplay.dts#L44

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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