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

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Fri Oct 8 16:35:28 EDT 2010


* Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net> [101007 18:19]:
> 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.

Are you sure? I thought DCC is JTAG specific standard?

Tony



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