[PATCH] serial: DCC(JTAG) serial and console emulation support

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Thu Oct 7 21:28:14 EDT 2010


On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Daniel Walker wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 14:27 -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> 
> > Can you please pass the read and write functions to the driver
> > in platform_data? We are already booting kernels with both
> > ARMv6 and 7 compiled in.
> 
> What kind of situation did you want to use it in ? I was thinking about
> how arm could have these functions in a header file, that way we
> wouldn't duplicate in multiple places.
> 
> > Also, as it's a driver, other architectures may want to use it too.
> 
> I'm not sure if this model fits other architectures tho. They may not
> have the same read/write/status sorts of stuff. Atleast I don't know
> enough about other architectures jtags .

This is ARM specific, and even not all ARM implementations have it.
 

Nicolas



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