[U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Set the /chosen/stdout-path fdt property for sunxi boards
Ian Campbell
ijc+uboot at hellion.org.uk
Sat Feb 21 11:18:44 CET 2015
On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 16:59 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> While discussing with some people how to get the Linux kernel to do the
> right thing wrt sending output to both the serial console and the
> hdmi out / lcd screen when booting on ARM devices, Grant Likely pointed out
> that there already is a solution for this.
>
> All we need to do is set the /chosen/stdout-path fdt property, and if no
> console= arguments were specified on the kernel commandline the kernel
> will honor this and add this device as a console (next to the primary
> video output on hdmi).
>
> And u-boot already has support for setting this, all we need to do is
> define OF_STDOUT_PATH and then everything will just work ootb, without
> people needing to meddle with adding console= arguments in extlinux.conf .
>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk>
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