[PATCH] arm: kirkwood: pogo v4: Use a more common format for stdout-path

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Thu Mar 16 19:15:57 CET 2023


On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 04:11:27PM -0700, Tony Dinh wrote:
> Hi Pali,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 2:58 PM Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday 15 March 2023 14:56:52 Tony Dinh wrote:
> > > The mainline Pogo V4 DTS uses a stdout-path format that is not
> > > recognizable by u-boot. Change it to a commonly used format.
> >
> > Cannot we teach u-boot to understand also currently used format?
> 
> I assume it is good to document the fact that perhaps using
> dm-pre-reloc tag (and later boot-phase tag) will overcome many odd
> properties format in Linux DTS. We said dm-pre-reloc is a workaround,
> but IMHO the tags are really good for u-boot, since u-boot is a
> multi-phase boot loader. If a device like UART is needed in a certain
> phase, we should say so.
> 
> Also at the moment, modifying the serial-uclass.c is something more
> than I can chew. If I must do it myself, it will be a while. If
> anybody wants to give it a try, please do so.

Note that the boot phase tags are now upstream, so those dts changes can
also go upstream now.

-- 
Tom
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