[PATCH v2] arm: dts: ipq5424-rdp466: add chosen node for serial console

[Casey Connolly]

Hi Gurumoorthy,

On 6/3/26 13:38, Gurumoorthy Santhakumar wrote:
> Add a /chosen node with stdout-path pointing to serial0 (uart1) to
> enable the DT-driven console discovery path in
> serial_find_console_or_panic().
> 
> Without this node, the live DT path in serial_find_console_or_panic()
> is skipped and the fallback path is used. Adding the /chosen node makes
> the console selection explicit and deterministic, ensuring the correct
> serial device is always selected as the console.

Please submit this fix upstream! I can pick it here until the next sync 
but I'd like it to at least be on the kernel list.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gurumoorthy Santhakumar <gurumoorthy.santhakumar at oss.qualcomm.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Replaced the DM_FLAG_PRE_RELOC approach (v1) with adding a /chosen
>    node in the board-specific U-Boot DTSI overlay, as suggested by
>    Casey Connolly. This is the standard DT mechanism for specifying
>    the console device and avoids modifying driver flags.

wanna turn down the verbosity of your LLM?

Kind regards,

> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20260524050328.414639-1-gurumoorthy.snthakumar@oss.qualcomm.com/
> ---
> ---
>   arch/arm/dts/ipq5424-rdp466-u-boot.dtsi | 3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/ipq5424-rdp466-u-boot.dtsi b/arch/arm/dts/ipq5424-rdp466-u-boot.dtsi
> index 9e4af4d9f72..36640f31d61 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/dts/ipq5424-rdp466-u-boot.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/dts/ipq5424-rdp466-u-boot.dtsi
> @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
>   		reg = <0x0 0x80000000 0x0 0x20000000>;
>   	};
>   
> +	chosen {
> +		stdout-path = "serial0:115200n8";
> +	};
>   };
>   
>   	&sdhc {