[PATCH 6/6] ARM: bcm476x: Instantiate console UART

Domenico Andreoli cavokz at gmail.com
Tue Oct 9 19:37:43 EDT 2012


On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 09:06:51PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 10/06/2012 07:53 PM, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> > From: Domenico Andreoli <domenico.andreoli at linux.com>
> > 
> > The BCM476x sports standard PL011 UARTs which are fully described and
> > put to use with these few changes.
> 
> Given that this SoC uses an interrupt controller for which there's
> already a driver (so there's no need to wait for a later patch before
> interrupts work), and that patch 1/6 adds debug/bcm476x.S anyway, I'd be
> inclined to just squash this patch into the very first one myself.
> 
> If not, this patch isn't really just instantiating the console UART, but
> also allowing the DEBUG_LL implementation to be selected.

I created a separate patch for the DEBUG_LL and the rest is squashed in
the first infrastructure patch.

Regards,
Domenico



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