[PATCH 2/3] ARM: plat-samsung: use Kconfig choice for debug UART selection
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Oct 10 09:34:55 EDT 2011
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 01:35:54PM +0100, Thomas Abraham wrote:
> There are no difficulties with the original patch. But that was not
> how Samsung boards have been selecting the low level debug uart port
> number. The proposed patch tried to maintain the old style.
>
> Another point is that Samsung's Exynos4 (and few other SoC's) has a
> fourth UART port as well. Not that it is used as a debug port
> currently, but there is no technical limitation in using that as a
> console port. So that might need 'DEBUG_S3C_UART3' as well.
Tell you what then: let's stick with the original patch for now and then you
can refactor the Samsung bit in the future if/when you add support for the
fourth UART. Does that sound OK?
Will
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