[PATCH 05/11] arm: mvebu: convert Armada 370/XP to common init

[Sebastian Hesselbarth]

On 05/21/2013 08:47 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 08:38:26AM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>> On 05/21/2013 08:33 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 08:28:10AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
>>>>> +	armada_370_xp_add_uart();
>>>>
>>>> How do you want to support a board which uses another UART instead of
>>>> uart0 when you call this from SoC code?
>>>
>>> Ok, I see. You use CONFIG_MVEBU_CONSOLE_UART to determine an UART base.
>>> What's the rationale for doing this? We don't want to have compile time
>>> decisions for things we know at runtime.
>>
>> How do you know the UART console by runtime? It can be on any UART
>> possible.
>
> Well ok, you can't really know it at runtime, but you could use multiple
> consoles or maybe you could register a specific uart based on a
> configuration option in the environment or some bootstrap pin. These
> are all not very common examples, but I think you shouldn't prevent them
> in your SoC code.
>
>> Anyway, as we are moving to DT with the next patches, all
>> enabled uarts will be registered.
>>
>> But leaves the question, how to get the correct UART for console?
>
> Using the linux,stdout-path property in the chosen node.

Well, okay then consider the above a temporary compile time config
option that will be removed as soon as DT patches come. ;)

Sebastian