On platforms where we expect ACPI tables to exist, use the serial port
defined by the ACPI Serial Port Console Redirection (SPCR) table by
default, falling back to the fixed serial port defined at build time.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow the platform configuration to provide a mechanism for
identifying the serial console UART. Provide two globally available
mechanisms: "null" (i.e. no serial console), and "fixed" (i.e. use
whatever is specified by COMCONSOLE in config/serial.h).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
In the context of serial consoles, the use of any frame formats other
than the standard 8 data bits, no parity, and one stop bit is so rare
as to be nonexistent.
Remove the almost certainly unused support for custom frame formats.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some platforms (such as the Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A) do not provide a
functional SBI debug console. We can obtain early debug messages on
these systems by writing directly to the UART used by the vendor
firmware.
There is no viable way to parse the UART address from the device tree,
since the prefix debug messages occur extremely early, before the C
runtime environment is available and therefore before any information
has been parsed from the device tree. The early UART model and
register addresses must be configured by editing config/serial.h if
needed. (This is an acceptable limitation, since prefix debugging is
an extremely specialised use case.)
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow named configurations to be specified via the CONFIG=... build
parameter. For headers in config/*.h which support named
configurations, the following files will be included when building
with CONFIG=<name>:
- config/defaults/<platform>.h (e.g. config/defaults/pcbios.h)
- config/<header>.h
- config/<name>/<header>.h (only if the directory config/<name> exists)
- config/local/<header>.h (autocreated if necessary)
- config/local/<name>/<header>.h (autocreated if necessary)
This mechanism allows for predefined named configurations to be
checked in to the source tree, as a directory config/<name> containing
all of the required header files.
The mechanism also allows for users to define multiple local
configurations, by creating header files in the directory
config/local/<name>.
Note that the config/*.h files which are used only to configure
internal iPXE APIs (e.g. config/ioapi.h) cannot be modified via a
named configuration. This avoids rebuilding the entire iPXE codebase
whenever switching to a different named configuration.
Inspired-by: Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Tested-by: Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Include config/local/$file in config/$file where it makes sense and
create empty local configs during build if not present.
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@etherboot.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@etherboot.org>
