Re: [PATCH v6 00/12] Earlycon cleanup

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Feb 07 2016 - 01:08:50 EST


On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 09:19:56AM +0000, Jon Hunter wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On 16/01/16 23:23, Peter Hurley wrote:
> > Hi Greg, Grant & Rob,
> >
> > This patch series is a rebase of the v3 from April last year.
> >
> > This patch series builds on my earlier "Extensible console matching &
> > direct earlycon" to add several useful features to earlycon:
> > * Proper port i/o configuration from DT node with of_serial properties
> > (such as reg-io-width, reg-shift and reg-offset, and endianness)
> > * Proper console name & index initialization from earlycon name
> > (for both command line and DT-defined earlycons)
> > * Support for DT 'stdout-path' options pass-through to earlycon setup
> > * Improved log messages for troubleshooting
> > * Support for multiple OF earlycon declarations so different
> > compatible strings can specify the same OF earlycon
>
> I just wanted to check the status of this series. I have not seen it
> appear in -next yet. I was waiting for this to get merged so that I can
> enable earlycon via DT for Tegra.

Now in my testing branch, if all goes well, will show up in -next in a
few days.

thanks,

greg k-h