From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Jui Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] ARM: dts: consolidate aliases for Cygnus dt files Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:46:23 -0700 Message-ID: <56031DAF.5070503@broadcom.com> References: <1442611454-16331-1-git-send-email-rjui@broadcom.com> <25764744.UdkoAR05y0@wuerfel> <55FC85D6.7050506@broadcom.com> <20046098.CeNft0Jl1D@wuerfel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20046098.CeNft0Jl1D@wuerfel> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Florian Fainelli , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, bcm-kernel-feedback-list-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html