[PATCH 1/6] ARM: move ARCH config definitions into mach dirs

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sun Sep 2 04:49:56 EDT 2012


On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 07:48:42PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 08/30/2012 02:28 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > It's not only about virtual addresses, it's about physical addresses too,
> > and we can't dictate that all hardware exposes a UART at any particular
> > physical address.
> 
> We have 3 things to track for each platform: the type of uart, the
> uart's phys address, and the virtual address we map it to.

Right, thanks for explaining it more properly the second time around.

However, you actually have four things to track:
1. The physical address
2. The virtual address
3. The inter-register offset
4. The type of the UART



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