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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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  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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