From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: msalter@redhat.com (Mark Salter)
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 12:34:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v10 3/4] ARM64: ACPI: enable ACPI_SPCR_TABLE
In-Reply-To: <20160908111654.GH1493@arm.com>
References: <20160905123617.18775-1-aleksey.makarov@linaro.org>
 <20160905123617.18775-4-aleksey.makarov@linaro.org>
 <7e5486cc-4080-2d1e-8f6d-98874379887d@gmail.com>
 <20160908111654.GH1493@arm.com>
Message-ID: <1473352456.21193.8.camel@redhat.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org

On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 12:16 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 12:30:19PM +0300, Aleksey Makarov wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 09/05/2016 03:36 PM, Aleksey Makarov wrote:
> > > 
> > > SBBR mentions SPCR as a mandatory ACPI table.??So enable it for ARM64
> > > 
> > > Earlycon should be set up as early as possible.??ACPI boot tables are
> > > mapped in arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c:acpi_boot_table_init() that
> > > is called from setup_arch() and that's where we parse SPCR.
> > > So it has to be opted-in per-arch.
> > > 
> > > When ACPI_SPCR_TABLE is defined initialization of DT earlycon is
> > > deferred until the DT/ACPI decision is done.??Initialize DT earlycon
> > > if ACPI is disabled.
> > Hi Will, Catalin,
> > 
> > Can you review this patch and consider ACKing it please?
> Hanjun, Al, Mark, Graeme -- any comments on this?
> 
> Will

I think there is a problem still with systems using 32-bit access to 8250
UARTs (i.e. Mustang) but that will need a DBG2 table spec change and
followup patch to resolve.