David Gibson writes: > This patch adds a new backend for the hvc console based on the > low-level udbg callbacks. This effectively implements a working > runtime console in terms of the simple udbg primitives. This is kind > of a hack - since udbg isn't something you really want to be using > routinely - but it's really useful during bringup. > > This can be used to quickly implement a userspace usable console while > you're working on a proper driver for whatever console I/O device the > hardware has. Or, it can be used to avoid writing a full blown > tty/console driver entirely for quick-and-dirty I/O hardware that will > later be replaced by something else.
Since only powerpc has udbg, shouldn't the Kconfig option depend on PPC? Paul. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
