Hi Laurent,
On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 4:37 PM Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday, 6 August 2018 17:07:51 EEST Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > This RFC patch series was sparked by noticing that commit 2d4dd0da45401c7a
>
> Where can that commit be found ?
tty-next
> > ("serial: sh-sci: Allow for compressed SCIF address") broke earlycon
> > support on most Renesas ARM SoCs using SCIF ports, and by the fragility of
> > deriving regshift from the register block size (which may be rounded up):
>
> Why should it be rounded up ?
There's no requirement to round it up. But it's not uncommon to round up
register block sizes to the next power of two, or more.
In hindsight, perhaps we should have adopted the "reg-shift" DT property,
which is used by other serial port drivers, and by of_setup_earlycon().
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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