From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Rini Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:09:15 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] ns16550: allow UART address to be set dynamically In-Reply-To: References: <1355354590-10023-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org> <50C918A5.6090207@wwwdotorg.org> <20121213102950.17EC320120D@gemini.denx.de> <50CA1BB8.4000704@wwwdotorg.org> <20121213203604.1DD9F201213@gemini.denx.de> <50CA3E7A.8020407@wwwdotorg.org> <50CA4056.8060900@ti.com> <50CA437F.7060704@wwwdotorg.org> <50CB8ED1.7020503@ti.com> <50CBA217.3070202@wwwdotorg.org> Message-ID: <50CF89FB.5000601@ti.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/14/12 17:22, Simon Glass wrote: [snip] > Perhaps I can make the point another way. Assuming that the SOC in > question is ARM-based and has Linux support it either supports FDT > now or presumably will fairly soon. We found that some of the > things we want to know about at the low level are hardware > properties that are already sit in a node in the FDT. For example > the memory controller may have information about the memory type > attached to it. > > Given this, my suggestion is that this hardware information be kept > in one place (FDT) where possible, even if it unfortunately > temporarily needs to be translated into some simpler format as part > of the SPL build for efficiency reasons. Exactly. The fewer places we have to write down the details the better. - -- Tom -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQz4n7AAoJENk4IS6UOR1WkQYP/RcnxKDaMLKdT9j+rQ+FEKtS s0vl4v8OFRMetmVzPqeMndHMk4IIbMFOgW58tiYnVZm0iJNCZDr/WyIiU0XRLmkl jWPl8qszw/9l5EkgOWOmPK4r9fBhv0QLGonyBMU3chUI6/uVH/fZXMm7m+f3rwS6 9JSiA+E+VAhSwFMgNeLyk4H85xyIDu3tH4q8hqWQ2c223sgTuZPD2/f3EUQ+KyrX 3Rk133/2LLeJHkXqwkJhYkhNgvvooHy/5SeUuv4LRsLDV3xqoo7mpJ1NREtinthN PnoiJP3wTDUffSe38kk0VKjQ//xaYuM28PfrTpZQ0O82GPOlSko4M0rpekWpFdiP Mvqf2LK01QqbxNF/dllwlv2AeU2hR2m2j8cSsT+Ugo1E9tLl/P+/ziXR2zMkbDe/ zJCzJmG3L9p7EtSzsReguUPNonsimxNlpDIhOBGdiob6W9jfKELIYHWoWI3O8tJr GhGmujoo/zmEa6berP2hDB0qs+lHXU3fk57wc+aIeOXKfTadqRoWhqSy4FeYlDHX yYyEOkOntmC61e3lJR01wmLUsPkHjLVRkfT3xR9ivTIhkAoQaSRJC1WoEPzlM7qU VTwnKkE9jlDl7n2ASXKa0A+r2hBaagV8i6rJceR+2z4CVrPOl1tJUFARAmRbxZWV WfxpfY0IMEbCpQ46Jhif =3dA/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----