[PATCH V2 3/4] ARM64 LPC: support serial based on low-pin-count

zhichang.yuan
2016-09-14T11:48:49Z

On 2016/9/8 17:58, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday, September 8, 2016 5:51:25 PM CEST zhichang wrote:
>> On 2016?09?07? 22:50, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, September 7, 2016 9:33:52 PM CEST Zhichang Yuan wrote:
>>>> From: "zhichang.yuan" <yuanzhichang@hisilicon.com>
>>>>
>>>> On Hip06 platform, a 16550 compatible UART is connected to low-pin-count and
>>>> controlled through the LPC I/O cycles. This patch drives the UART port with
>>>> the specific serial in/out function pair based on the indirect-IO mechanism
>>>> introduced by Hip06 LPC driver.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: zhichang.yuan <yuanzhichang@hisilicon.com>
>>>
>>> Any reason this cannot just use the regular drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c
>>> driver?
>> I think two reasons for that:
>> 1. 8250_of.c is only for devicetree, but we need to support ACPI device too;
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> ACPI has its own way of describing serial ports, use that instead.
Could you give me some info about ACPI serial ports?
I found there is _CRS specific for serial, but it seems no serial driver use that.

Thanks!
Zhichang

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>> 2. It seems UPIO_PORT is not supported there.
>
> Should be easy enough to add.
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> Arnd
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