Re: [PATCH 1/2] sh: bios: Revive earlyprintk support

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Adrian,

On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 5:51 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-10-19 at 08:48 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > +config EARLY_PRINTK
> > > +   bool "Early printk"
> > > +   depends on SH_STANDARD_BIOS
> > > +   help
> > > +     Say Y here to redirect kernel printk messages to the serial port
> > > +     used by the SH-IPL bootloader, starting very early in the boot
> > > +     process and ending when the kernel's serial console is initialised.
> > > +     This option is only useful while porting the kernel to a new machine,
> >
> > Can we expect to see new machine ports using arch/sh/ ?
>
> There is J-Core which is new open source hardware based on arch/sh.

Do J-Core systems use the LinuxSH standard BIOS?
Still, it can be useful while converting existing SH systems to DT.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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