On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 08:06:52PM +0530, Mukesh, Savaliya wrote: > > On 6/24/2020 1:19 AM, Bjorn Andersson wrote: > > On Mon 22 Jun 03:08 PDT 2020, Akash Asthana wrote: > > > > > From: Mukesh Kumar Savaliya <msavaliy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > This change enables earlyconsole support as static driver for geni > > > based UART. Kernel space UART console driver will be generic for > > > console and other usecases of UART. > > > > > Is this hardware different from the qcom,geni-debug-uart which we > > already have EARLYCON support for? > > > > Why is this a separate driver? > > The Hardware is same, but for the Generic kernel image we are using > downstream driver which can't be a static compiled driver. Why not? Why not fix that? > The same driver file has 1.earlyconsole, 2.kernel console and 3.HSUART > driver parts. > > To make Generic image, 2 and 3 are internal downstream driver and 1st one i > am trying to get upstreamed, so that can be pulled into the ACK. That has nothing to do with us, please do it correctly so that everyone benifits. > The one with the qcom,genu-debug-uart is not being used for our products. So we can just delete it from the tree? thanks, greg k-h
