[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2 V2] IOMUX: Add console multiplexing support.

[Gary Jennejohn <garyj@denx.de>]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:34:30 +0200
Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:

> In message <20081021114543.1c44ff03@ernst.jennejohn.org> you wrote:
> >
> > By the time the problem arises we're already running out of RAM.
> 
> So maybe you can describe exactly what happens, and when?
> 
> > I think the real problem is that console_init_r() is called too
> > early.  If it were called *after* eth_initialize() then there would
> > be no difficulties.
> > 
> > AFAICT moving console_init_r() shouldn't present any problems, since
> > until its invocation U-Boot will simply use the serial interface.
> 
> I am not so sure. Moving things around not as trivial as it may seem,
> as we have all kinds of configurations with LCD display, modem support
> etc.
> 

All console_init_r() does is to search for devices which can be used
for STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR (whether in the environment or the device list),
call console_setfile() and then print out the list of devices found.
console_setfile() actually calls the device start routines.  The actual
registration of the devices happens in device_init() which is called
before console_init_r().

So I see no reason why moving console_init_r() would have any effect.

> > It isn't clear to me whether the architecture-specific libs have custodians.
> > Does anyone know?
> 
> What is not clear about that? Do we have custodians for  architecture
> specific  files?  Yes, we do. So whay do you doubt that the libs fall
> into their responsibility, too?
> 

Did I write that I doubt anything?  No.  I just asked for some
clarification because it wasn't clear to me from the very abbreviated
descriptions on the Custodian page just exactly what is within the
purview of a custodian.

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Gary Jennejohn
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