From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] ns16550: allow UART address to be set dynamically
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:29:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121213102950.17EC320120D@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50C918A5.6090207@wwwdotorg.org>
Dear Stephen Warren,
In message <50C918A5.6090207@wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
>
> > This seems reasonable in the interim while we are hard-coding things
> > but needing more flexibility. How do you plan to configure the actual
> > address - is it with the ODM data or FDT?
>
> I intend to use the ODMDATA. This already includes a field that
> specifies which UART to use. I'm working on some patches (to
> BCT-generation tools and U-Boot) that define an ODMDATA2 value, which
> will indicate the complete pinmux configuration required for the UART,
> so everything can be self-contained. I'm fairly close to publishing
> these patches.
Arghh... Do we really, really have to invent yet another way to pass
hardware configuration information? Especially one totally
incompatible to any other system?
I think I will be objecting against such an approach. Please use the
device tree instead.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-13 10:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-12 23:23 [U-Boot] [PATCH] ns16550: allow UART address to be set dynamically Stephen Warren
2012-12-12 23:38 ` Simon Glass
2012-12-12 23:52 ` Stephen Warren
2012-12-13 0:38 ` Simon Glass
2012-12-13 10:29 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2012-12-13 18:17 ` Stephen Warren
2012-12-13 20:36 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-12-13 20:45 ` Stephen Warren
2012-12-13 20:53 ` Tom Rini
2012-12-13 21:07 ` Stephen Warren
2012-12-13 21:51 ` Simon Glass
2012-12-14 20:40 ` Tom Rini
2012-12-14 21:14 ` Simon Glass
2012-12-14 22:03 ` Stephen Warren
2012-12-14 22:22 ` Simon Glass
2012-12-14 22:45 ` Stephen Warren
2012-12-17 21:09 ` Tom Rini
2012-12-17 22:24 ` Stephen Warren
2012-12-17 22:37 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-12-17 22:58 ` Stephen Warren
2012-12-18 6:39 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-12-18 16:37 ` Stephen Warren
2012-12-18 19:15 ` Simon Glass
2012-12-17 21:09 ` Tom Rini
2012-12-14 22:35 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-12-14 21:52 ` Stephen Warren
2012-12-14 22:31 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-12-14 22:26 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-12-14 23:16 ` Graeme Russ
2012-12-15 0:32 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-12-15 1:32 ` Graeme Russ
2012-12-15 7:30 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-12-15 9:53 ` Graeme Russ
2012-12-17 21:04 ` Tom Rini
2012-12-13 23:11 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-12-13 23:26 ` Stephen Warren
2012-12-13 10:27 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-12-13 13:11 ` Tom Rini
2012-12-13 14:22 ` Wolfgang Denk
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