内核调试之early printk

        early printk 解决什么问题那？本质也是打印调试信息，但是不同于printk,printk属于打印的一个框架，既然是框架必然需要一些必备条件，框架的初始化等，在内核启动初期这些框架都没来得及初始化，所以这些函数肯定不能用，eary pritnk实现就比较直接简单，就是直接调用对应芯片的串口寄存器，把数据写到串口控制器寄存器里面，只要你芯片启动了就能输出。各个架构下都实现了earlyprintk

Kernel hacking  --->     
   arm Debugging  --->     
       Kernel low-level debugging functions
       Early printk   

Character devices  ---> 
    Serial drivers  --->      



static struct uart_driver amba_reg;
static struct console amba_console = {
	.name		= "ttyAMA",
	.write		= pl011_console_write,
	.device		= uart_console_device,
	.setup		= pl011_console_setup,
	.match		= pl011_console_match,
	.flags		= CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_ANYTIME,
	.index		= -1,
	.data		= &amba_reg,
};

驱动代码

amba-pl011.c - drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c - Linux source code (v5.12.12) - Bootlin