On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Greg, Grant & Rob, > > This patch series is a rebase of the v3 from April last year. > > This patch series builds on my earlier "Extensible console matching & > direct earlycon" to add several useful features to earlycon: > * Proper port i/o configuration from DT node with of_serial properties > (such as reg-io-width, reg-shift and reg-offset, and endianness) > * Proper console name & index initialization from earlycon name > (for both command line and DT-defined earlycons) > * Support for DT 'stdout-path' options pass-through to earlycon setup > * Improved log messages for troubleshooting > * Support for multiple OF earlycon declarations so different > compatible strings can specify the same OF earlycon > > * Changes from v3 > - Added 32-bit big-endian support > - Removed the omap8250 earlycon (will follow later) > > > Rob has expressed a desire to have the DT parts live in drivers/of/fdt.c > The problem with this approach is two-fold. Firstly, the number of required > parameters quickly becomes ugly (base address, io reg width, io reg offset, > io reg stride, endianness, earlycon name). Secondly, drivers are already > requiring access to alternate DT properties, like clocks, to initialize > earlycons, and this requirement will continue. I dislike ugliness more. So other than my one nit, for the series: Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
