21 Oct, 2015

3 commits

  • It is useful to see a message from the debug UART early during boot so that
    you know things are working. Add an option to enable this. The message will
    be displayed as soon as debug_uart_init() is called.

    Signed-off-by: Simon Glass
    Reviewed-by: Bin Meng

    Simon Glass
     
  • Some boards need to set things up before the debug UART can be used. On
    these boards a call to debug_uart_init() is insufficient. When this option
    is enabled, the function board_debug_uart_init() will be called when
    debug_uart_init() is called. You can put any code here that is needed to
    set up the UART ready for use, such as set pin multiplexing or enable
    clocks.

    Signed-off-by: Simon Glass
    Reviewed-by: Bin Meng

    Simon Glass
     
  • We want to be able to add other common code to this function. So change the
    driver's version to have an underscore before it, just like
    _debug_uart_putc(). Define debug_uart_init() to call this version.

    Update all drivers to this new method.

    Signed-off-by: Simon Glass
    Reviewed-by: Bin Meng

    Simon Glass
     

22 Jul, 2015

1 commit


19 Feb, 2015

1 commit

  • This came up in a discussion on the mailing list here:

    https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/384613/

    My concerns at the time were:
    - it doesn't need to be written in assembler
    - it doesn't need to be ARM-specific

    This patch provides a possible alternative. It works by allowing any serial
    driver to export one init function and provide a putc() function. These
    can be used to output debug data before the real serial driver is available.

    This implementation does not depend on driver model, and it is possible for
    it to operate without a stack on some architectures (e.g. PowerPC, ARM). It
    provides the same features as the ARM-specific debug.S but with more UART
    and architecture support.

    Signed-off-by: Simon Glass

    Simon Glass