From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurentp@cse-semaphore.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Using two baud rate generators with the cpm_uart driver
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:59:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4804D0EB.5020508@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804151754.21664.laurentp@cse-semaphore.com>
Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>> The clean solution would be to have an abstracted clock API, similar to
>> phylib, where the caller doesn't know details about BRGs and such.
>> Maybe the linux/clk.h API would be suitable; I haven't looked at it in
>> detail.
>
> The clock API would have to be quite advanced to express things like "the SCC4
> clock is a combination of BRG2 and BRG5" (and I don't even consider
> adding "with BRG2 set to 16x the baud rate and BRG5 to the baud rate").
What I was picturing was platform code providing a clock object that the
cpm_uart driver could be pointed at (possibly by modifying the device
tree in platform init); the knowledge of the multiple BRG weirdness
would be contained in platform code.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-15 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-15 13:32 [RFC] Using two baud rate generators with the cpm_uart driver Laurent Pinchart
2008-04-15 15:34 ` Scott Wood
2008-04-15 15:54 ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-04-15 15:59 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-04-15 16:03 ` Laurent Pinchart
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