From 58755c51d3252312d80cbcb97928d71199c2f5e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:49:43 +0200
Subject: ArmPlatformPkg: introduce fixed PCD for early hello message (RH only)
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:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bios.edk2.devel/2996/focus=3433>.
Suggested-by: Drew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 7ce97b06421434c82095f01a1753a8c9c546cc30)
(cherry picked from commit 20b1f1cbd0590aa71c6d99d35e23cf08e0707750)
(cherry picked from commit 6734b88cf7abcaf42632e3d2fc469b2169dd2f16)
(cherry picked from commit ef77da632559e9baa1c69869e4cbea377068ef27)
---
ArmPlatformPkg/ArmPlatformPkg.dec | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/ArmPlatformPkg/ArmPlatformPkg.dec b/ArmPlatformPkg/ArmPlatformPkg.dec
index dff4598..3c5c6c7 100644
--- a/ArmPlatformPkg/ArmPlatformPkg.dec
+++ b/ArmPlatformPkg/ArmPlatformPkg.dec
@@ -112,6 +112,13 @@
## 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
--
1.8.3.1