linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/10] serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for Armada-3700 serial port

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Date:	Tue, 2 Feb 2016 18:21:10 +0000
From:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:	Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
	arm@...nel.org, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Wilson Ding <dingwei@...vell.com>,
	Nadav Haklai <nadavh@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for
 Armada-3700 serial port

On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 06:19:29PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 07:07:39PM +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> > From: Wilson Ding <dingwei@...vell.com>
> > 
> > Armada-3700's uart is a simple serial port, which doesn't
> > support. Configuring the modem control lines. The uart port has a 32
> > bytes Tx FIFO and a 64 bytes Rx FIFO
> > 
> > The uart driver implements the uart core operations. It also support the
> > system (early) console based on Armada-3700's serial port.
> >
> > Known Issue:
> > 
> > The uart driver currently doesn't support clock programming, which means
> > the baud-rate stays with the default value configured by the bootloader
> > at boot time
> 
> This looks like any other early console.
> 
> Why does this not use the earlycon infrastructure?

Ah, it does, and I misread the diff quite badly.

Apologies for the noise.

Mark.