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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] serial/arc-uart: switch to devicetree based probing
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:17:04 +0000
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To: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
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On Friday 11 January 2013, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On Friday 11 January 2013 05:03 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> > Quick question about the name though: is this UART only used
> > on ARC, or is it something that synopsys licenses to other
> > parties as well? If the latter is true, we might want to 
> > add a more generic "compatible" value for those that use
> > it on another architecture.
> 
> It's not licensed as standalone IP - since its not a standard 8250. It is only
> (but actively) used on the internal FPGA flows from ARC days.
> 
Ok, thanks for the confirmation.

	Arnd