[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] console: Support board-specific early console

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri Mar 20 16:24:17 CET 2015


On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:30:33PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:

> From: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
> 
> This is mostly useful for debugging the early boot process. Often boards
> can provide some low-level code that outputs a character on some debug
> port prior to passing the early setup code. Allow boards to implement an
> early_putc() function that will be used to redirect printf() and friends
> to this debug port until the proper console becomes ready.
> 
> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>

Dumb question, shouldn't this plug into the DEBUG_UART stuff Simon did
that's already merged?

-- 
Tom
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