Thanks for your reply. Yes, both the options are enabled in the kernel configuration for my board as seen below.
CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG=y CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_CPM=y # CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_MEMCONS is not set CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_CPM_ADDR=0x11a80 -- Sent from: http://linuxppc.10917.n7.nabble.com/linuxppc-dev-f3.html