Hi, On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:10:30AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > On the support side, I'm not looking forward to this for beagle/panda > > > users. We've already converted them once from ttySx -> ttyOx back in > > > 2.6.33/2.6.34? days. That was an irc/email/u-boot/kernel nightmare... > > > > that's exactly why we're talking about ways to maintain backwards > > compatibility here. But I'm more interested in finding a way to switch > > over to ttyS and have a symlink to ttyO, that way a simple debootstrap > > (or any other ARM distro minimal rootfs) would work out of the box, > > without any changes, just like in "normal" systems. > > Yeah let's not break things. The symlink solution won't work for kernel again. Let's not break things again. > console output so it needs to be dealt with some other way. it would if kernel itself would create the symlink, but that might not be doable in a clean way. > It seems that the biggest amount of work is making existing 8250 > support the missing features in a clean way and without breaking > other platforms. Looks like 8250_dw.c has some pm_runtime_calls so > obviously it's doable. right -- balbi
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