Re: ttyO2 broken on IGEPv2 on 3.3, 3.4-rc5 or arm-soc/for-next, working on 3.2

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Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 22:30:58 +0200, Enric Balletbò i Serra wrote:
>
>> I recently tested kernel 3.6-rc5 and worked for me. Let me check tomorrow
>> kernel 3.6. Which u-boot version are you using?
>
> 2011.12 + a few patches to make the NAND of the IGEPv2 rev6 work. Let
> me try to build a recent U-Boot (which now includes the SPL for the
> IGEP) and see if it improves the situation.
>
> However, I believe that the rule is that the kernel shouldn't depend
> too much on initialization done by the bootloader, so it still seems
> like an issue to me.

Correct, if the kernel is relying on any bootloader assumptions, it
should be considered a kernel bug.  

We'd really like to remove any bootloader assumptions from the kernel.
This will allow the kernel to be bootloader independent, and make it
easier to support reboot via kexec.

Kevin

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