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From: heiko@sntech.de (Heiko =?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=FCbner?=)
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 14:53:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: rockchip: add bootargs setting the correct
 serial console
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Am Montag, 4. August 2014, 19:29:36 schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
> On Monday 04 August 2014, Heiko St?bner wrote:
> > Uart2 seems to be designated debug uart for all Rockchip platforms.
> > On all rk30xx and rk31xx boards I've seen so far, this uart was used
> > for the console and the rk3288 TRM even describes it as debug uart.
> > 
> > Thus add it to the core SoC dtsi files to not duplicate the same
> > information on every board.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
> 
> Shouldn't this be done through the /aliases node for the port selection
> and the current-speed property for the bit rate?

hmm, I'm not sure I understand this ... especially how this would relate to 
aliases.

>>From reading around a bit I guess teaching the 8250_dw about 
add_preferred_console and using "linux,stdout-path" would be the better way?


Thanks
Heiko