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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2012-10-23 14:55:08 +0100
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2013-01-22 17:51:01 +0000
commit2475ff9d2c6ea3bbfed55c4635426c371f9ad327 (patch)
treec705c9a55b2d9ea2d270b7002f568b6be0465ecd /Documentation/arm64
parentd6bafb9b821a3a5ddeb600a9fd015085760d818e (diff)
arm64: Add simple earlyprintk support
This patch adds support for "earlyprintk=" parameter on the kernel command line. The format is: earlyprintk=<name>[,<addr>][,<options>] where <name> is the name of the (UART) device, e.g. "pl011", <addr> is the I/O address. The <options> aren't currently used. The mapping of the earlyprintk device is done very early during kernel boot and there are restrictions on which functions it can call. A special early_io_map() function is added which creates the mapping from the pre-defined EARLY_IOBASE to the device I/O address passed via the kernel parameter. The pgd entry corresponding to EARLY_IOBASE is pre-populated in head.S during kernel boot. Only PL011 is currently supported and it is assumed that the interface is already initialised by the boot loader before the kernel is started. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm64/memory.txt2
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diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt b/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt
index d758702fc03c..5f583af0a6e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ ffffffbc00000000 ffffffbdffffffff 8GB vmemmap
ffffffbe00000000 ffffffbffbbfffff ~8GB [guard, future vmmemap]
+ffffffbffbc00000 ffffffbffbdfffff 2MB earlyprintk device
+
ffffffbffbe00000 ffffffbffbe0ffff 64KB PCI I/O space
ffffffbbffff0000 ffffffbcffffffff ~2MB [guard]