Subject: [PATCH] ARM64: Don't set the default console to ttyAMA0

From: [email-masked] (Jisheng Zhang)
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:15:21 +0800

Dear Jon,

On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:43:42 +0000 Jon Hunter wrote:

> When booting Tegra210 with a minimal rootfs it may not be necessary to
> specify any boot parameters via the kernel command line as information
> for console is described via the "stdout-path" node the device-tree
> blob. However, when there are no boot parameter specified, no output is
> seen on the console in the case of Tegra210 and this is because the
> default command line in the ARM64 defconfig specifies the console as
> ttyAMA0 which takes precedence over the "stdout-path" node from
> device-tree.
> 
> ttyAMAx is used for AMBA PL011 serial ports, but not all ARM64 platforms
> use this serial driver. Therefore, remove the default command line
> entry from the ARM64 defconfig to ensure that ttyAMA0 does not get set
> as the default console if no kernel command line is specified.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <[email-masked]>

We need this patch as well. Thanks

Tested-by: Jisheng Zhang <[email-masked]>

> ---
>  arch/arm64/configs/defconfig | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> index d21631760ec7..caecb66188be 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> @@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ CONFIG_KSM=y
>  CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y
>  CONFIG_CMA=y
>  CONFIG_XEN=y
> -CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=ttyAMA0"
>  # CONFIG_CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS is not set
>  CONFIG_COMPAT=y
>  CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=y