From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:57:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:38856 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20022417AbXKHJ5K (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:57:10 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lA89vAvq011106; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:57:10 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id lA89v9Aq011105; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:57:09 GMT Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:57:09 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Martin Michlmayr , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] IP22: Disable EARLY PRINTK, because it breaks serial console Message-ID: <20071108095709.GC10665@linux-mips.org> References: <20070911104459.GB7624@alpha.franken.de> <20071030073349.GA15984@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20071107215423.GA11915@alpha.franken.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071107215423.GA11915@alpha.franken.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 17447 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:54:23PM +0100, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > > Ideally, of course, all the SCC drivers should get merged eventually, but > > due to subtle (and sometimes broken, as it is the case with the > > DECstation) differences in wiring for various systems it may never really > > happen, sigh... > > having a more generic zilog driver with platform backends is quite high on > my todo list. But I won't make promisses when this happens... Right now there are alot of artificial differences between the sun and IP22 8530 drivers by just different prefixes. A good start would already be to unify all these needless differences which is largely a mechanical job. Once that is that is it will become easier to spot all the relevant functional differences - there aren't that many but by now they're well hidden. Ralf