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    serial: Support an early UART for debugging · 2f964aa7
    Simon Glass authored
    This came up in a discussion on the mailing list here:
    
    https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/384613/
    
    
    
    My concerns at the time were:
    - it doesn't need to be written in assembler
    - it doesn't need to be ARM-specific
    
    This patch provides a possible alternative. It works by allowing any serial
    driver to export one init function and provide a putc() function. These
    can be used to output debug data before the real serial driver is available.
    
    This implementation does not depend on driver model, and it is possible for
    it to operate without a stack on some architectures (e.g. PowerPC, ARM). It
    provides the same features as the ARM-specific debug.S but with more UART
    and architecture support.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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