From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 5/8] serial: pxa: Make the driver buildable for BCM7xxx set-top platforms Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:04:27 +0100 Message-ID: <3356477.HitZEsNa4H@wuerfel> References: <1415781993-7755-1-git-send-email-cernekee@gmail.com> <1415781993-7755-6-git-send-email-cernekee@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1415781993-7755-6-git-send-email-cernekee@gmail.com> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Kevin Cernekee Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, jslaby@suse.cz, robh@kernel.org, tushar.behera@linaro.org, daniel@zonque.org, haojian.zhuang@gmail.com, robert.jarzmik@free.fr, grant.likely@linaro.org, f.fainelli@gmail.com, mbizon@freebox.fr, jogo@openwrt.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 12 November 2014 00:46:30 Kevin Cernekee wrote: > Remove the platform dependency in Kconfig and add an appropriate > compatible string. Note that BCM7401 has one 16550A-compatible UART > in the UPG uart_clk domain, and two proprietary UARTs in the 27 MHz > clock domain. This driver handles the former one. > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee Can you explain why you are using the PXA serial driver instead of the 8250 driver, if this is 16550A compatible? I don't know the history why PXA is using a separate driver. Arnd