[U-Boot] [PATCH] tegra: Specify debugging serial port at boot.

[Simon Glass]

Hi Wolfgang,

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Simon,
>
> In message <CAPnjgZ128xB53b-h-pcPJs1tjLLngRa116D75ysmsWJvofotrw at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>>
>> 3. What you propose is actually very easy to implement - it just
>> requires a new config like CONFIG_DEFAULT_UART or
>> CONFIG_PRE_CONSOLE_UART to be defined, and used in the
>> board_pre_console_putc() code.
>
> No.  I do not want to see any PRE_CONSOLE_UART or pre_console_putc()
> stuff, because this is bogus.  If you do output to a serial UART port,
> this _is_ your console.  Just use it in the standard war.
>
> I made my mind up: I want to get rid of all this "pre_console" UART
> stuff.

OK, so revert that commit?

In that case I have a question. How can we get console output in the
event of a panic before console_ready() is called?

Regards,
Simon

>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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