Re: [PATCH V2 0/2] serial: bcm2835: add bcm2835 auxiliar uart driver

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> Martin Sperl <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hat am 10. Januar 2016 um 16:45
> geschrieben:
>
>
>
> > On 10.01.2016, at 16:05, Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> >> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx hat am 9. Januar 2016 um 14:07 geschrieben:
> >>
> >>
> >> From: Martin Sperl <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> This patch series adds the bcm2835aux uart driver, which is created
> >> as a wrapper arround the 8250 driver (based on recommendations by
> >> Stephen Warren)
> >>
> >> The device tree patch itself is not included yet because this
> >> patch requires the clk-bcm2835aux driver, which is right now only
> >> in clk-next, but should become available with 4.5.
> >
> > it doesn't make sense without the device tree patch. IMHO it's okay as long
> > as
> > you point out the dependency and set the node status to disable.
>
> I agree in principle, but it is the same as with the spi-bcm2835aux driver,
> where I had provided a patch to the dt, that still has not been applied
> yet, but with the driver itself already in the kernel.

Please provide a new version, because it won't apply anymore. It increase the
chance of more testing.

>
> Also the reorganisation of the dt to support the bcm2836 makes this
> another moving target.
>
> The other concern is that we would need to use defines included
> from "dt-bindings/clock/bcm2835aux.h” and without those the dt will not
> work.

AFAIK there has been a discussion about such a problem.

>
> For the record: this is what would be required:
> uart1: uart@7e215040 {
> compatible = "brcm,bcm2835-aux-uart";
> reg = <0x7e215040 0x40>;
> interrupts = <1 29>;
> clocks = <&aux BCM2835_AUX_CLOCK_UART>;
> status = "disabled";
> };
>
> I can respin the whole patchset to include this as well if you tell me to.

I think we should wait for a rpi maintainer's response about that. No need to
hurry.

>
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