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earlycon on imx6sx Linux

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eugenwarkentin
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I am trying to enable earlycon on imx6sx. I appended "earlycon=ec_imx21,0x02020000,1152008n" string to the kernel parameter passed from uboot to the kernel.  Indeed, this enabled the early console, but unfortunately, text output became garbled on my terminal:

setenv mmcargs setenv bootargs console=\${console},\${baudrate} root=/dev/mmcblk3p2 rootwait rw earlycon=ec_imx21,0x02020000,115200n8
=> saveenv
Saving Environment to MMC...
Writing to MMC(2)... done
=>
=> boot
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Kernel image @ 0x80800000 [ 0x000000 - 0x458180 ]
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 83000000
Booting using the fdt blob at 0x83000000
Using Device Tree in place at 83000000, end 8300f6fb
switch to ldo_bypass mode!

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
[ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.9.88-rt66-gf5546cd-dirty (warkene@lbnidevlinux01) (gcc version 7.3.0 (GCC) ) #9 SMP PREEMPT RT Tue Apr 23 16:08:54 CDT 2019
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [412fc09a] revision 10 (ARMv7), cr=10c53c7d
[ 0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
[ 0.000000] OF: fdt:Machine model: Freescale i.MX6 SoloX SDB RevB Board (Shure Blackhawk DSM eval)
[ 0.000000] earlycon: ec_imx21 at MMIO 0x02020000 (options '115200n8')
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[ 5.679913] console [ttymxc0] enabled
[ 5.684709] bootconsole [ec_imx21] disabled
[ 5.684709] bootconsole [ec_imx21] disabled
[ 5.709531] 21f4000.serial: ttymxc4 at MMIO 0x21f4000 (irq = 71, base_baud = 5000000) is a IMX
[ 5.752225] imx sema4 driver is registered.

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It looks like baud rate was not set correctly?

Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Eugen W.

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b36401
NXP Employee
NXP Employee

There should be nothing special to earlycon.
Please make sure that you are set the same serial port options (baud rate, flow control, etc) in bootargs and terminal running on the PC.


Have a great day,
Victor

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