From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: powerpc_flash_init(), wtf!?
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 07:44:33 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1178228673.6353.60.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <463A27A6.5050601@ru.mvista.com>
> UARTs should be registered as of_device by the same bus probing mechanism
> (and there was an attempt at OF based driver, IIRC).
There is more than an "attempt". There is one and it works :-)
> arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c only facilitates the old, platform device
> based approach.
This is a compromise for legacy port (ok, it did grow a bit beyond
legacy stuff but still...) mostly to allow for very early initialisation
of serial ports.
Ultimately, if we generalize of_platform_devices for serial ports,
however, we will not need to create platform devices there anymore.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-03 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-01 5:18 powerpc_flash_init(), wtf!? David Gibson
2007-05-03 6:35 ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-05-03 7:03 ` David Gibson
2007-05-03 12:02 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 12:22 ` David Gibson
2007-05-03 13:28 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 16:21 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-03 16:59 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 17:25 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-03 21:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-03 23:49 ` David Gibson
2007-05-03 12:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-04 0:30 ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-05-04 1:28 ` David Gibson
2007-05-03 11:47 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 12:30 ` David Gibson
2007-05-03 13:04 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 16:20 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-03 17:17 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 17:35 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-03 18:19 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 21:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-05-03 17:53 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-03 18:07 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-03 23:56 ` David Gibson
2007-05-04 12:14 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-05 17:36 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-05 20:19 ` Segher Boessenkool
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2007-05-23 21:57 Mark A. Greer
2007-05-24 0:56 ` David Gibson
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