From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rjui@broadcom.com (Ray Jui) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:46:23 -0700 Subject: [PATCH v2 1/9] ARM: dts: consolidate aliases for Cygnus dt files In-Reply-To: <20046098.CeNft0Jl1D@wuerfel> References: <1442611454-16331-1-git-send-email-rjui@broadcom.com> <25764744.UdkoAR05y0@wuerfel> <55FC85D6.7050506@broadcom.com> <20046098.CeNft0Jl1D@wuerfel> Message-ID: <56031DAF.5070503@broadcom.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 9/23/2015 2:31 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 18 September 2015 14:44:54 Ray Jui wrote: >> On 9/18/2015 2:27 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> On Friday 18 September 2015 14:24:06 Ray Jui wrote: >>> >>> The SoC has at least four uarts according to this, so it seems unlikely that >>> each board really only uses only the fourth one of them and labels it '0' >>> on the board. As soon as you get one board that has more than one uart wired >>> up, you would need to undo this. >>> >> >> I think Scott might have explained this in the past. uart3 is going to >> be used on all Cygnus boards (including all future boards) because the >> bootrom was designed to use uart3 as console and that won't change. >> >> Let me know if you still think I need to move this back to the dts. > > I would still like to see them stay in the .dts file, if only for > consistency with other platforms. > > Also, even if you can guarantee that uart3 is always used for the > console, that doesn't prevent board designers from adding more than > one uart, right? > > Arnd > Okay. Given that this patch series has been merged by Florian, I'll submit another patch to move it back to .dts files. Thanks, Ray