From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 7/8] tty/serial: add arm64 semihosting earlycon
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 21:23:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14193198.1gAJ7xnz7b@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1403231559160.1291@knanqh.ubzr>
On Sunday 23 March 2014 16:04:41 Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Rob Herring wrote:
>
> > From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> >
> > Add earlycon support for the arm64 semihosting debug serial interface.
> > This allows enabling a debug console when early_params are processed.
> > This is based on the arm64 earlyprintk smh support and is intended to
> > replace it.
> >
> > This is named arm rather than arm64 in hopes it will be used for both,
> > but only arm64 is supported ATM.
>
> It can't be used for both as the semihosting calls themselves need
> assembly code and this is not compatible with the equivalent ARM32
> calls. So I'd suggest naming this "arm64" to avoid potential confusion.
How about using an compile-time conditional to put both inline assemblies
in there? While the driver is rather trivial to start with, I don't see
a point in duplicating it either.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-23 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-21 21:08 [PATCH 0/8] Generic serial earlycon Rob Herring
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2014-03-21 21:08 ` [PATCH 1/8] x86: move FIX_EARLYCON_MEM kconfig into x86 Rob Herring
2014-03-21 21:08 ` [PATCH 2/8] arm64: add FIXMAP_PAGE_NOCACHE definition Rob Herring
2014-03-24 11:13 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-03-21 21:08 ` [PATCH 3/8] arm64: enable FIX_EARLYCON_MEM kconfig Rob Herring
2014-03-24 11:38 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-03-21 21:08 ` [PATCH 4/8] tty/serial: add generic serial earlycon Rob Herring
2014-03-24 11:22 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-03-24 11:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-03-24 13:36 ` Rob Herring
2014-03-24 15:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-04-17 18:27 ` Rob Herring
2014-04-17 20:16 ` Alan Cox
2014-04-19 11:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-03-21 21:08 ` [PATCH 5/8] tty/serial: convert 8250 to generic earlycon Rob Herring
2014-03-21 21:08 ` [PATCH 6/8] tty/serial: pl011: add generic earlycon support Rob Herring
2014-03-24 11:28 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-04-16 22:14 ` Rob Herring
2014-04-23 16:39 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-03-21 21:08 ` [PATCH 7/8] tty/serial: add arm64 semihosting earlycon Rob Herring
2014-03-23 20:04 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-03-23 20:23 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2014-03-23 21:48 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-03-24 11:38 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-03-24 11:48 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-03-21 21:08 ` [PATCH 8/8] arm64: remove arch specific earlyprintk Rob Herring
2014-03-22 9:54 ` [PATCH 0/8] Generic serial earlycon Arnd Bergmann
2014-03-22 14:14 ` Rob Herring
2014-03-22 22:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-03-23 15:09 ` Rob Herring
2014-03-23 19:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-03-29 0:17 ` Grant Likely
2014-03-29 14:33 ` Rob Herring
2014-03-29 15:34 ` Grant Likely
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