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| author | Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> | 2014-04-18 17:19:58 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-04-24 16:32:27 -0700 |
| commit | d50d7269ebcb438afa346cdffce0f4e2a1b9e831 (patch) | |
| tree | 7095e7a34467771f9b0e3c2f113cbeb6e7ff5145 /drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig | |
| parent | 0d3c673e7881e691991b2a4745bd4f149603baa2 (diff) | |
tty/serial: add arm/arm64 semihosting earlycon
Add earlycon support for the arm/arm64 semihosting debug serial
interface. This allows enabling a debug console when early_params are
processed. This is based on the arm64 earlyprintk smh support and is
intended to replace it.
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig index 4290d05875b..988fa2b6243 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig @@ -73,6 +73,16 @@ config SERIAL_AMBA_PL011_CONSOLE your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the kernel at boot time.) +config SERIAL_EARLYCON_ARM_SEMIHOST + bool "Early console using ARM semihosting" + depends on ARM64 || ARM + select SERIAL_EARLYCON + help + Support for early debug console using ARM semihosting. This enables + the console before standard serial driver is probed. This is enabled + with "earlycon=smh" on the kernel command line. The console is + enabled when early_param is processed. + config SERIAL_SB1250_DUART tristate "BCM1xxx on-chip DUART serial support" depends on SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC=y |