Thank you Jakub for the quick guidance.
I will work accordingly and soon update you with my progress. :-)


Regards,
Sourav Punoriyar

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Jakub Jermář <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Sourav,
>
> On 02/08/2017 08:05 PM, sourav punoriyar wrote:
> > I was able to merge omap_uart changes with the existing code and build.
>
> There should really be virtually no difference as the branch contains a
> recent mainline already.
>
> > Could you please help me little bit more related to console boot
> > argument in *HelenOS* , like with an example.
> > "console= devices/\hw\path\to\the\serial\device\function"
> >
> > "\the\serial\device\function"--- ???
> >
> > "In linux i used to give console = ttyO0"
>
> On HelenOS, this must be a full location service path (relative to
> /loc/). Unfortunately, it is machine-specific.
>
> For example, the sparc64 sun4u QEMU machine uses (can be passed via a
> QEMU argument):
>
>   devices/\hw\pci0\00:03.0\com1\a
>
> On amd64/ia32 QEMU this will be (must be set in grub configuration):
>
>   devices/\hw\pci0\00:01.0\com1\a
>
> Note that the backslashes usually need to be escaped.
>
> The omap_uart driver and the am35x platform driver construct a different
> path. Looking at the sources, the pathname will be something like:
>
>   devices/\hw\serial\a
>
> You can try to verify this by printing the function name in the
> omap_uart driver eg. by changing the severity of the ddf_msg that prints
> uart->dev from LVL_NOTE to LVL_ERROR or by setting a higher log level
> for omap_uart or the whole system. Let me reiterate that on arm we are
> still missing code that passes boot arguments from the boot loader to
> the kernel, so there is currently no way to pass this string.
>
> Best,
> Jakub
>
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