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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-12-09 10:02:18 +0000
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2009-12-09 10:02:18 +0000
commit93fd03a8c6728b58879f8af20ffd55d9c32a778b (patch)
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ARM: Add an earlyprintk debug console
This patch allows an earlyprintk console if CONFIG_DEBUG_LL is enabled, using the printch asm function. The patch is based on the original work by Sascha Hauer. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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+/*
+ * linux/arch/arm/kernel/early_printk.c
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2009 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/console.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+
+extern void printch(int);
+
+static void early_write(const char *s, unsigned n)
+{
+ while (n-- > 0) {
+ if (*s == '\n')
+ printch('\r');
+ printch(*s);
+ s++;
+ }
+}
+
+static void early_console_write(struct console *con, const char *s, unsigned n)
+{
+ early_write(s, n);
+}
+
+static struct console early_console = {
+ .name = "earlycon",
+ .write = early_console_write,
+ .flags = CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_BOOT,
+ .index = -1,
+};
+
+asmlinkage void early_printk(const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+ char buf[512];
+ int n;
+ va_list ap;
+
+ va_start(ap, fmt);
+ n = vscnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, ap);
+ early_write(buf, n);
+ va_end(ap);
+}
+
+static int __init setup_early_printk(char *buf)
+{
+ register_console(&early_console);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+early_param("earlyprintk", setup_early_printk);
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