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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org,
	"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/config/efi: drop DRIVER_SERIAL_NS16550
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 09:38:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201028083801.GY26805@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bea5dc47-adc4-4096-9617-7d99e48e599e@pengutronix.de>

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 10:07:19PM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/26/20 7:06 PM, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 09:35:30AM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> >> On 10/20/20 9:26 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 07:08:47AM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> >>>> Hello Uwe,
> >>>>
> >>>> On 9/18/20 1:04 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> >>>>> For most machines having DRIVER_SERIAL_NS16550 and DRIVER_SERIAL_EFI_STDIO
> >>>>> both enabled results in the output appearing twice on the serial output.
> >>>>> So remove disable the lowlevel driver and rely on the EFI bios for serial.
> >>>
> >>> How embarrassing, s/remove //.
> >>>
> >>>> On the flip-side, some systems now won't output anything over serial with
> >>>> the defconfig, like the one I just ran into. Maybe we should keep both
> >>>> enabled, but have a quirk table, which boards to disable the 16550 for?
> >>>
> >>> Expecting that most systems are happy with EFI_STDIO I would suggest a
> >>> quirk table for those systems which are not?!
> >>
> >> Doubled output is better than no output, so a defconfig that
> >> by default displays anything if the BIOS is not in the quirk
> >> table sounds like it's the better choice?
> > 
> > Maybe disable CONSOLE_ACTIVATE_ALL instead? Then you should only get the
> > output from one driver.
> 
> And which one should be default? You'll get more compile time coverage
> with the defconfig but the user experience problem of having a defconfig
> that does print nothing at all on some devices is still there.

Maybe there is some way to find out where DRIVER_SERIAL_EFI_STDIO
directs it output to?

Sascha

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-28  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-18 11:04 [PATCH 1/2] Regenerate defconfig files Uwe Kleine-König
2020-09-18 11:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/config/efi: drop DRIVER_SERIAL_NS16550 Uwe Kleine-König
2020-10-20  5:08   ` Ahmad Fatoum
2020-10-20  7:26     ` Uwe Kleine-König
2020-10-20  7:35       ` Ahmad Fatoum
2020-10-26 18:06         ` Michael Olbrich
2020-10-26 21:07           ` Ahmad Fatoum
2020-10-28  8:38             ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2020-09-23  8:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] Regenerate defconfig files Sascha Hauer

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