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authorPhilipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>2019-03-15 10:14:47 +0100
committerSascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>2019-03-18 09:43:35 +0100
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pstore: add console support
Add support for writing console messages to pstore. Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de> Documentation-added-by: Juergen Borleis <jbe@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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@@ -75,3 +75,7 @@ All pstore files that could be found are added to the /pstore directory. This is
a read-only filesystem. If you disable the Kconfig option FS_PSTORE_RAMOOPS_RO,
the RAMOOPS area is reset and its ECC recalculated. But that does not allow any
writes from Barebox into that area.
+
+If the menu entry ``FS_PSTORE_CONSOLE`` is enabled, Barebox itself will add all
+its own console output to the *ramoops:console* part, which enables the regular
+userland later on to have access to the bootloaders output.