linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tty: Don't force RISCV SBI console as preferred console

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Date:   Thu, 25 Apr 2019 23:21:33 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
Cc:     Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@....com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        "linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: Don't force RISCV SBI console as preferred console

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 09:41:21PM -0700, Atish Patra wrote:
> Do we even need HVC_SBI console to be enabled by default? Disabling
> CONFIG_HVC_RISCV_SBI seems to be fine while running in QEMU.
> 
> If we don't need it, I suggest we should remove the config option from
> defconfig in addition to this patch.

I think the whole concept of the SBI console is a little dangerous.
It means that for one piece of physical hardware (usually the uart)
we have two entiries (the M-mode firmware and the OS) in control,
which tends to rarely end well.