From da4731a05cd2279c5ba504ad117ccd6256d75305 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laszlo Ersek Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:49:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 09/21] ArmPlatformPkg: introduce fixed PCD for early hello message (RH only) Notes about the RHEL-8.3/20200603-ca407c7246bf [edk2-stable202005] -> RHEL-8.5/20210520-e1999b264f1f [edk2-stable202105] rebase: - no change Notes about the RHEL-8.2/20190904-37eef91017ad [edk2-stable201908] -> RHEL-8.3/20200603-ca407c7246bf [edk2-stable202005] rebase: - no change Notes about the RHEL-8.1/20190308-89910a39dcfd [edk2-stable201903] -> RHEL-8.2/20190904-37eef91017ad [edk2-stable201908] rebase: - no change Notes about the RHEL-8.0/20180508-ee3198e672e2 -> RHEL-8.1/20190308-89910a39dcfd rebase: - no change Notes about the RHEL-7.6/ovmf-20180508-2.gitee3198e672e2.el7 -> RHEL-8.0/20180508-ee3198e672e2 rebase: - reorder the rebase changelog in the commit message so that it reads like a blog: place more recent entries near the top - no changes to the patch body Notes about the 20171011-92d07e48907f -> 20180508-ee3198e672e2 rebase: - no changes Notes about the 20170228-c325e41585e3 -> 20171011-92d07e48907f rebase: - no changes Notes about the 20160608b-988715a -> 20170228-c325e41585e3 rebase: - no changes Drew has proposed that ARM|AARCH64 platform firmware (especially virtual machine firmware) print a reasonably early, simple hello message to the serial port, regardless of debug mask settings. This should inform interactive users, and provide some rough help in localizing boot problems, even with restrictive debug masks. If a platform doesn't want this feature, it should stick with the default empty string. RHBZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270279 Downstream only: . Suggested-by: Drew Jones Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0 Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek (cherry picked from commit 7ce97b06421434c82095f01a1753a8c9c546cc30) (cherry picked from commit 20b1f1cbd0590aa71c6d99d35e23cf08e0707750) (cherry picked from commit 6734b88cf7abcaf42632e3d2fc469b2169dd2f16) (cherry picked from commit ef77da632559e9baa1c69869e4cbea377068ef27) (cherry picked from commit 58755c51d3252312d80cbcb97928d71199c2f5e1) (cherry picked from commit c3f07e323e76856f1b42ea7b8c598ba3201c28a2) (cherry picked from commit 9f756c1ad83cc81f7d892cd036d59a2b567b02dc) (cherry picked from commit c75aea7a738ac7fb944c0695a4bfffc3985afaa9) --- ArmPlatformPkg/ArmPlatformPkg.dec | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/ArmPlatformPkg/ArmPlatformPkg.dec b/ArmPlatformPkg/ArmPlatformPkg.dec index 3a25ddcdc8ca..b2b58553c7a6 100644 --- a/ArmPlatformPkg/ArmPlatformPkg.dec +++ b/ArmPlatformPkg/ArmPlatformPkg.dec @@ -121,6 +121,13 @@ [PcdsFixedAtBuild.common] ## If set, this will swap settings for HDLCD RED_SELECT and BLUE_SELECT registers gArmPlatformTokenSpaceGuid.PcdArmHdLcdSwapBlueRedSelect|FALSE|BOOLEAN|0x00000045 + # + # Early hello message (ASCII string), printed to the serial port. + # If set to the empty string, nothing is printed. + # Otherwise, a trailing CRLF should be specified explicitly. + # + gArmPlatformTokenSpaceGuid.PcdEarlyHelloMessage|""|VOID*|0x00000100 + [PcdsFixedAtBuild.common,PcdsDynamic.common] ## PL031 RealTimeClock gArmPlatformTokenSpaceGuid.PcdPL031RtcBase|0x0|UINT32|0x00000024 -- 2.35.1