Re: [PATCH/RFC 3/4] Revert "serial: sh-sci: Compute the regshift value for SCI ports"

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Hi Geert,

On Monday, 6 August 2018 17:34:34 EEST Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 4:16 PM Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Monday, 6 August 2018 17:07:54 EEST Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >> This reverts commit dfc80387aefb78161f83732804c6d01c89c24595.
> >> 
> >> Deriving the proper regshift value from the register block size is
> >> fragile, as it may have been rounded up.
> >> 
> >> Furthermore we will need plat_sci_port.regshift again.
> > 
> > Won't this break bisection ? Shouldn't you squash patches 3 and 4 together
> > ?
> > 
> > Does this mechanism break anything on non-DT platforms ? If not I'd rather
> > keep it for them, and only use compat strings for DT platforms, to
> > avoiding adding back a platform data field.
> 
> Actually I think the original commit broke SCI on H8/300, as regshift should
> be zero on that platform.
> But that was not discovered until recently.

So there are still people booting H3/800 ? :-)

Could we still keep the mechanism for SH and fix H8/300 with special handling 
somewhere ?

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart



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