On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/10/2014 02:34 PM, Olof Johansson wrote: >> >> Greg, >> >> This commit: >> >> commit 1bd8324535ec1ff44aef55c0e40b9e7d56b310fb >> Author: Lucas Stach <dev@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Mon Nov 3 23:16:54 2014 +0100 >> >> serial: of-serial: fetch line number from DT > > ... >> >> Broke a whole lot of tegra boards in last night's -next here. In >> particular, I've been looking at tegra20-seaboard, which now doesn't >> boot with console any more. >> >> http://arm-soc.lixom.net/bootlogs/next/next-20141110/ >> >> Unfortunately, tegra has for a long time been specifying the aliases >> as a fixed 1:1 mapping, but most environments rely on ttyS0 being the >> first _activated_ serial port. That's obviously going to break things >> here. :( > > ... >> >> Stephen: I suppose the best way to handle this on tegra is to specify >> the aliases per-board instead of in the soc dtsi today. > > > IIRC, there was a deliberate request to name the Tegra UARTs after the SoC > ports rather than board ports, so that it'd be obvious to people which port > was which. I'm not sure if we can change the aliases in the Tegra DTs now > that people may have got used to them? I think that's a great idea in general, but they've been this way now for 4 years and it'll mean everyone changing bootargs and console configurations (where to spawn getty) everywhere. :( -Olof -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
