On 12 December 2017 at 14:16, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 12 December 2017 at 14:13, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: >> On 12 December 2017 at 14:12, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> >> wrote: >>> On 12 December 2017 at 14:10, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> >>> wrote: >>>> That doesn't actually usefully separate debug output from the >>>> console, though, because stdout-path is also going to point >>>> to the UART with the lowest physical address... >>>> >>> >>> By default, yes, just like is currently the case. But I would assume >>> this new serial port could be appointed 'console' and put into >>> stdout-path by QEMU, based on the command line options? >> >> We don't have any command line options for doing that, and I'm >> generally reluctant to introduce new command line UI, especially >> new command line UI that's specific to Arm and not also needed >> for x86. >> > > If stdout-path is always going to point to pl011@0x9000000, why would > we need to parse it?
If you had always parsed stdout-path, we wouldn't need to worry about the order in which the UART nodes appear in the dtb... thanks -- PMM
