[PATCH v13 2/5] uart: pl011: Introduce register accessor

[peter@hurleysoftware.com (Peter Hurley)]

On 10/28/2015 10:51 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On 10/28/2015 09:22 AM, Peter Hurley wrote:
>> EARLYCON_DECLARE(zte, zte_early_console_setup);
>> OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE(zte, ".......", zte_early_console_setup);
>> EARLYCON_DECLARE(sbsa32, sbsa32_early_console_setup);
>> OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE(sbsa32, "arm,sbsa-uart", sbsa32_early_console_setup);
>>
>> The above assumes that the sbsa32 maintains the equivalence of
>> earlycon and console; ie., that
>>
>> / {
>>     chosen {
>>         stdout-path = &uart0;
>>     };
>>
>>     soc {
>>         uart0: serial at xxxxxx {
>>             compatible = "arm,sbsa-uart";
>>         };
>>     };
>> };
>>
>>
>> will start a sbsa32 earlycon and later replace that with
>> sbsa console.
> 
> I never really understood the device tree support for SBSA. The "S" stands for Server, and ARM Server systems are supposed to use ACPI. It's easy to add special cases via device tree, because of its flexibility.

Agreed.

> ACPI is much more difficult, and that's why I used the command-line approach.

Understood.

> Anyway, I found this alternate patch from Lief Lindholm that implements this idea better, although it needs work:
> 
> https://patches.linaro.org/53265/

Yeah, I saw those, but I'm waiting for v2 to review.

Regards,
Peter Hurley