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From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: 3 Serial issues up for discussion (was: Re: Serial core problems on embedded PPC)
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:43:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020729174341.GA12964@opus.bloom.county> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020729181702.E25451@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>


On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 06:17:02PM +0100, Russell King wrote:


> 1. Serial port initialisation
> -----------------------------
>
> Firstly, one thing to bear in mind here is that, as Alan says "be nice
> to make sure it was much earlier".  I guess Alan's right, so we can get
> oopsen out of the the kernel relatively easily, even when we're using
> framebuffer consoles.
>
> I'm sure Alan will enlighten us with his specific reasons if required.
>
> There have been several suggestions around on how to fix this table:
>
> a. architectures provide a sub-module to 8250.c which contains the
>    per-port details, rather than a table in serial.h.  This would
>    ideally mean removing serial.h completely.  The relevant object
>    would be linked into 8250.c when 8250.c is built as a module.

I think this would work best.  On PPC this would allow us to change the
mess of include/asm-ppc/serial.h into a slightly cleaner Makefile
(especially if we do the automagic <platforms/platform.h> or
<asm/platform.h> bit that's been talked about in the past) magic and we
could use that object file as well in the bootwrapper as well.

--
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-29 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-29  4:08 Serial core problems on embedded PPC David Gibson
2002-07-29  9:00 ` Russell King
2002-07-29 14:44   ` Tom Rini
2002-07-29 17:17     ` 3 Serial issues up for discussion (was: Re: Serial core problems on embedded PPC) Russell King
2002-07-29 17:43       ` Tom Rini [this message]
2002-07-29 18:13         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-07-29 19:07           ` Tom Rini
2002-07-29 19:09           ` 3 Serial issues up for discussion (was: " Dan Malek
2002-07-29 19:46             ` Remco Treffkorn
2002-07-29 20:18               ` Russell King
2002-07-30  2:54               ` 3 Serial issues up for discussion David S. Miller
2002-07-29 18:15         ` 3 Serial issues up for discussion (was: Re: Serial core problems on embedded PPC) Matt Porter
2002-07-29 17:47       ` [parisc-linux] " Christoph Plattner
2002-07-29 22:19       ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-07-30  2:51       ` 3 Serial issues up for discussion David S. Miller
2002-08-02  6:01     ` symbol card with orinoco_cs on mpc823 shaowei dai
2002-08-02  6:23       ` David Gibson
2002-08-02  6:36         ` Matthew Locke
2002-08-02  7:01           ` shaowei dai
     [not found]       ` <3D4AC468.83BCD667@opensource.se>
2002-08-03  1:30         ` shaowei dai
2002-07-30  1:12   ` Serial core problems on embedded PPC David Gibson

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