From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:57:48 +1100 From: David Gibson To: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [0/14] Ebony support, 2nd spin Message-ID: <20070225235748.GA29826@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070220020837.GF17818@localhost.localdomain> <200702201516.25160.arnd@arndb.de> <20070221003558.GJ10231@localhost.localdomain> <200702211006.58565.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <200702211006.58565.arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:06:58AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 01:35, David Gibson wrote: > > Err.. no.  On my system legacy_serial doesn't touch the ports, but I'm > > getting console output via of_serial just fine.  The console is > > initialized rather later than would be ideal, but it works. > > > > I know that BenH has expressed the strong preference that > > legacy_serial should be reverted to only handling legacy ISA ports, > > not SoC and other hardwired ports. > > Ok, my impression on this was that of_serial is the right solution > in general, but it often gets initialized too late to debug some > of the interesting parts of the boot sequence. > > Unless we take handling of soc serial ports completely out of > legacy_serial, I think it should handle ebony just like the other > boards. Well, Ben has said to me that he'd like to remove handling of SoC serial ports (indeed everything excepy legacy ISA) from legacy_serial.c. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson