Re: [PATCH RFT 0/6] serial: sh-sci: Fixes for earlycon and keep_bootcon

[Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>]

Hi, Wolfram,

On 05.12.2024 10:39, Claudiu Beznea wrote:
> Hi, Wolfram,
> 
> On 04.12.2024 23:38, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>> Hi Claudiu,
>>
>>> in the following scenarios:
>>>
>>> 1/ "earlycon keep_bootcon" were present in bootargs
>>> 2/ only "earlycon" was present in bootargs
>>> 3/ none of the "earlycon" or "earlycon keep_bootcon" were present in
>>>    bootargs
>> ...
>>> Please give it a try on your devices as well.
>>
>> Will happily do so. Is there something to look for? Except for "it
>> works"?

Sorry, I noticed I missed to provide a clear answer your question: if boot
works for this scenarios we should be OK.

> 
> As this code touches the earlycon functionality, of interest are the 3
> cases highlighted above:
> 
> 1/ "earlycon keep_bootcon" are both present in bootargs
> 2/ only "earlycon" is present in bootargs
> 3/ none of the "earlycon" or "earlycon keep_bootcon" are present in
>    bootargs
> 
> One other thing, that I was currently able to test only on RZ/G3S, is to
> see how it behaves when the debug serial is described in DT with an alias
> other than zero. E.g., on [1] the debug serial alias on RZ/G3S was changed
> from 0 to 3. With the new alias (3) there were issues that I've tried to
> fix with this series.

If you can also check:
- it boots in this case and
- the serial device with alias zero and the debug serial are both working
  (tx, rx are working) after boot

then we can declare it OK as well.

Thank you,
Claudiu

> 
> Thank you for checking it,
> Claudiu
> 
> [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241115134401.3893008-6-claudiu.beznea.uj@bp.renesas.com/
> 
>>
>> Happy hacking,
>>
>>    Wolfram
>>