From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 22:30:18 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 0/9] Switch internal registers address to 0xF1 on Armada 370/XP In-Reply-To: <519CEAAF.2050600@free-electrons.com> References: <1369132414-18959-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <201305221743.47679.arnd@arndb.de> <519CEAAF.2050600@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <201305222230.18848.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wednesday 22 May 2013, Gregory CLEMENT wrote: > But you proposed to use device tree instead of CP15. In this case we won't be > able to use earlyprintk that was my point. You justified the fact to not use > earlyprintk because we can't use it for multiplatform. So I am fine to not being > able to use earlyprintk in multiplatform, but it sill important to be able to > continue to use in non multiplatform case, hence the need of the use of CP15 > bit. The use of devicetree would only be for the regualar kernel operation, not for DEBUG_LL. DEBUG_LL can easily be hardcoded. Arnd