sandbox: Allow the console to work earlier

With sandbox, errors and problems may be reported before console_init_f()
is executed. For example, an argument may not parse correctly or U-Boot may
panic(). At present this output is swallowed so there is no indication what
is going wrong.

Adjust the console to deal with a very early sandbox setup, by detecting that
there is no global_data yet, and calling os functions in that case.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/os.h b/include/os.h
index 1575a96922..d302b3685b 100644
--- a/include/os.h
+++ b/include/os.h
@@ -209,4 +209,24 @@ const char *os_dirent_get_typename(enum os_dirent_t type);
  */
 ssize_t os_get_filesize(const char *fname);
 
+/**
+ * Write a character to the controlling OS terminal
+ *
+ * This bypasses the U-Boot console support and writes directly to the OS
+ * stdout file descriptor.
+ *
+ * @param ch	Character to write
+ */
+void os_putc(int ch);
+
+/**
+ * Write a string to the controlling OS terminal
+ *
+ * This bypasses the U-Boot console support and writes directly to the OS
+ * stdout file descriptor.
+ *
+ * @param str	String to write (note that \n is not appended)
+ */
+void os_puts(const char *str);
+
 #endif