On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 09:50 -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Julien Grall <julien.gr...@linaro.org> wrote: > > From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> > > > > This patch registers hvc0 as the preferred console if no console > > has been specified explicitly on the kernel command line. > > > > The purpose is to allow platform agnostic kernels and boot images > > (such as distro installers) to boot in a Xen/ARM domU without the > > need to modify the command line by hand. > > How does this interact with DT chosen stdout-path?
I think it shouldn't any more than the existing calls from e.g. the 8250 driver to preferred_console do. > Is there a node for hvc0? Not a direct one, it is inferred from the presence of the general Xen node. I did vaguely consider handling a stdout-path pointing to that -- but it seemed a bit of an abuse. Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
