From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
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
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 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3356477.HitZEsNa4H@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415781993-7755-6-git-send-email-cernekee@gmail.com>
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 <cernekee@gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-12 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-12 8:46 [PATCH/RFC 0/8] UART driver support for BMIPS multiplatform kernels Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-12 8:46 ` [PATCH/RFC 1/8] tty: Fallback to use dynamic major number Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-12 8:46 ` [PATCH/RFC 2/8] serial: core: Add big_endian flag Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-12 8:46 ` [PATCH/RFC 3/8] of: Add helper function to check MMIO register endianness Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-12 8:50 ` Jiri Slaby
2014-11-12 9:04 ` Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-12 9:23 ` Jiri Slaby
2014-11-12 8:46 ` [PATCH/RFC 4/8] serial: pxa: Add fifo-size and {big,native}-endian properties Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-12 9:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-12 9:03 ` Jiri Slaby
2014-11-12 9:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-12 8:46 ` [PATCH/RFC 5/8] serial: pxa: Make the driver buildable for BCM7xxx set-top platforms Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-12 9:04 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2014-11-12 9:19 ` Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-13 9:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-13 19:08 ` Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-13 22:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-14 21:07 ` Robert Jarzmik
2014-11-12 8:46 ` [PATCH/RFC 6/8] serial: pxa: Update DT binding documentation Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-12 8:46 ` [PATCH/RFC 7/8] serial: earlycon: Set uart_port->big_endian based on DT properties Kevin Cernekee
2014-11-12 8:46 ` [PATCH/RFC 8/8] serial: pxa: Add OF_EARLYCON support Kevin Cernekee
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