app: os_linux_overlay: use Linux log format by default #10501
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Add CONFIG_LOG_OUTPUT_FORMAT_LINUX_TIMESTAMP=y to the Linux overlay. This aligns the timestamp format between SOF firmware and host Linux kernel logs. Signed-off-by: Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen@linux.intel.com>
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Pull request overview
This PR enables Linux-formatted timestamps in SOF firmware logs to align with host kernel log timestamps, improving log correlation and debugging.
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- Enables
CONFIG_LOG_OUTPUT_FORMAT_LINUX_TIMESTAMPin the Linux overlay configuration
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LHTM, Btw will there be a followup PR for GDB on LNL+
| # SOF Linux driver does not require FW to retain its | ||
| # state, so context save can be disabled | ||
| CONFIG_ADSP_IMR_CONTEXT_SAVE=n | ||
| CONFIG_LOG_OUTPUT_FORMAT_LINUX_TIMESTAMP=y |
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I think we can enable this Kconfig option as a project default or an intel_adsp default. It is already enabled for CAVS25, MTL, LNL, PTL, and WCL boards, and is likely just missing for NVL, so there is no need to differentiate it in the Linux overlay.
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Add CONFIG_LOG_OUTPUT_FORMAT_LINUX_TIMESTAMP=y to the Linux overlay. This aligns the timestamp format between SOF firmware and host Linux kernel logs.