linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] ACPI: parse the SPCR table

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Date:	Thu, 3 Mar 2016 07:35:40 -0800
From:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
To:	Aleksey Makarov <amakarov.linux@...il.com>,
	Aleksey Makarov <aleksey.makarov@...aro.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>,
	Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
	Al Stone <ahs3@...hat.com>,
	Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org>,
	Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>,
	"Zheng, Lv" <lv.zheng@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] ACPI: parse the SPCR table

On 03/03/2016 03:59 AM, Aleksey Makarov wrote:
> 
> 
> On 03/01/2016 06:31 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
>> On 02/29/2016 04:02 AM, Aleksey Makarov wrote:
>>> 'ARM Server Base Boot Requirements' [1] mentions SPCR (Serial Port
>>> Console Redirection Table) [2] as a mandatory ACPI table that
>>> specifies the configuration of serial console.
>>>
>>> Introduce a new function acpi_console_check().  At the uart port
>>> registration, this function checks if the ACPI SPCR table specifies
>>> its argument of type struct uart_port to be a console
>>> and if so calls add_preferred_console().
>>
>> How will a user enable an earlycon on the same console as the SPCR
>> console if there is no DBG2 table?
> 
> ...
> [    0.000000] earlycon: pl11 at MMIO 0x0000000009000000 (options '')
> [    0.000000] bootconsole [pl11] enabled
> ...
> [    0.000000] Kernel command line:  root=/dev/vda1 rw systemd.show_status=no acpi=force earlycon=pl011,0x9000000
> ...
> [    0.318248] ACPI: SPCR: adding preferred console [ttyAMA0]
> [    0.318736] ARMH0011:00: ttyAMA0 at MMIO 0x9000000 (irq = 5, base_baud = 0) is a SBSA
> [    0.319502] console [ttyAMA0] enabled
> [    0.319502] console [ttyAMA0] enabled
> [    0.319933] bootconsole [pl11] disabled
> [    0.319933] bootconsole [pl11] disabled
> ...
> 
> Why?

That's pretty disingenuous; via command line?

By that measure, none of your patches are required because a user
can already start both console and earlycon without them.

With the console location specified in the SPCR, earlycon should
be opt-in on the command-line simply with "earlycon" command-line
parameter.