Allow the FDT uart driver to select witch device node to use
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Authored by andrew on Sep 3 2015, 4:57 PM.

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rS287565: Allow us to set the console device tree node. This is needed as not all

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Some upstream dts files lack a stdout in /choosen. In these cases
we default to serial0, however this may be incorrect. This adds
support to set the node we should use in loader.

An example of this would be to add the following to loader.conf:
hw.fdt.console="/smb/uart@f7113000"

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andrew updated this revision to Diff 8460.Sep 3 2015, 4:57 PM

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Generally I like this, though hw.fdt.console seems limiting. hw.uart.console already exists, and also lets you set UART parameters. I see that we do this to a limited extent for current-speed below and hard-wire 8:1:N. We've done this for a long time, so I don't know how important it is, but I thought I'd point out the inconsistency.

sys/dev/uart/uart_cpu_fdt.c
156 ↗	(On Diff #8460)	There are other things than /chose/stdin /chosen/stdout. Perhaps you should limit things explicitly to those?
166–167 ↗	(On Diff #8460)	I'm torn. Is there some reason we don't do this when the user has specified a node that doesn't exist (eg node == -1 when cp != NULL)

We could follow the stdout-path bindings [1] in this node, but this would need us to parse them first.

I'm also open to a better name for the environment variable.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt

sys/dev/uart/uart_cpu_fdt.c
156 ↗	(On Diff #8460)	This is just changing the indentation of existing code, there is extra data in some of these, but that is out of the scope for this change.
166–167 ↗	(On Diff #8460)	The user could disable the fdt console with this by setting it to an invalid node, e.g. hw.fdt.console="none"

Closed by commit rS287565: Allow us to set the console device tree node. This is needed as not all (authored by andrew). · Explain WhySep 8 2015, 4:06 PM

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