[PATCH] arm: kirkwood: Enable uart0 dm-pre-reloc for Pogoplug V4 board

Tony Dinh mibodhi at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 18:56:52 CET 2023


On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 1:12 AM Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> On 2/13/23 09:48, Michael Walle wrote:
> > Am 2023-02-13 09:43, schrieb Stefan Roese:
> >> On 2/10/23 22:08, Tony Dinh wrote:
> >>> When DM_SERIAL is enabled, the device-tree tag u-boot,dm-pre-reloc is
> >>> required for this board to boot over UART with kwboot. Enable this in
> >>> kirkwood-pogoplug-series-4-u-boot.dtsi.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Tony Dinh <mibodhi at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> >
> > If I understood it correctly, this is a workaround, right? Maybe we
> > can include a link to the original discussion here for the case when
> > someone stumbles over this commit:
> >
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230201080210.ypz4nrj4y2igwxz3@pali/
>
> Correct, it's not fully understood, why this property is really needed.
> Some bug still might be hidden in the early DT console code. Still we
> want to move forward with this board, so this dm-pre-reloc property
> helps here.
>
> I'll add the link to the discussion to the commit text. Good idea.

Thanks Stefan!

All the best,
Tony

>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>


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