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authorAnup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>2020-05-05 07:23:40 +0300
committerAnup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>2020-05-07 07:14:16 +0300
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downloadopensbi-433bac7242d3d15be64753dde940f042a5d85e71.tar.xz
docs: platform/generic: Add details about stdout-path DT property
The generic platform will try to select serial console based on the stdout-path DT property in /chosen DT node hence we document this. Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
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@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ Users of the generic FDT platform will have to ensure that:
based on their platform requirements
2. The FDT passed by previous booting stage has DT compatible strings and
DT properties in sync with the FDT based drivers under lib/utils directory
+3. The FDT must have "stdout-path" DT property in the "/chosen" DT node when
+ a platform has multiple serial ports or consoles
To build the platform-specific library and firmware images, provide the
*PLATFORM=generic* parameter to the top level `make` command.