From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com (Maxime Ripard) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:41:58 +0100 Subject: [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH] ARM: sun6i: dt: Add new Mele I7 device In-Reply-To: <54FF714F.4010303@redhat.com> References: <1425131285-8640-1-git-send-email-codekipper@gmail.com> <20150303071635.GC4713@lukather> <54F568F8.1040104@redhat.com> <20150303082209.GE4713@lukather> <54F5B51F.6030609@redhat.com> <20150303135847.GH4911@lukather> <54FED277.4040000@redhat.com> <20150310184449.GZ5085@lukather> <54FF714F.4010303@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20150311134158.GM5085@lukather> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:33:51PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > >>>and we have no way to replace U-Boot in NAND > >>>so far (afaik). But replacing them by stdout-path is a very good > >>>solution too. > >> > >>You mean putting stdout-path in the dts, I'm not sure if I like that, > >>to me both bootargs and stdout-path are something which should be > >>left to the bootloader to set. But I understand that when not > >>using upstream u-boot that may be an issue. > > > >I know that some other platforms ask for stdout-path when they review > >it, because iirc, barebox uses it to know on which console to output > >its log and export its shell, which is also a valid interpretation of > >that property, and, contrary to bootargs, doesn't really imply that > >the bootloader should update it. > > Hmm, that is interesting we should probably start doing the same in > all the sunxi dts files, as eventually I would like to move all u-boot > board config to devicetree, so that we only need to maintain dts files > and not both dts files and u-boot board configs. I had the plan to remove all earlyprintk in the bootargs of the DTS, I can do it to convert all DTS to use stdout-path as well. Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: