From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 23:33:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH V3 3/4] ARM64 LPC: support serial based on low-pin-count
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On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 11:04:33 PM CEST zhichang.yuan wrote:
> The 8250_hisi_lpc.c support both ACPI and dts similar to 8250_dw :
> 
> +static struct platform_driver hs_lpc8250_driver = {
> +       .driver = {
> +               .name           = "hisi-lpc-uart",
> +               .of_match_table = hs8250_of_match,
> +               .acpi_match_table = ACPI_PTR(hs8250_acpi_match),
> 
> So, I am a little confused why we need to support dts in 8250_of.c and support ACPI in another
> driver file.
> 

After looking again, I'm pretty sure that drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c
will handle the ACPI case without modifications, you just need to adapt
the 8250_of driver to handle IORESOURCE_IO ports. This will be required
anyway with the next version once the LPC bridge is on the PCI bus.

	Arnd