[PATCH] ARM: EXYNOS: Consolidate multiple low-level UART port definitions

Kevin Hilman khilman at linaro.org
Fri May 31 14:20:45 EDT 2013


Tushar Behera <tushar.behera at linaro.org> writes:

> There are two definitions for low-level UART ports for Exynos platform.
> CONFIG_S3C_LOWLEVEL_UART_PORT is used for printing "Uncompressing
> Linux... done, booting the kernel." and CONFIG_S3C_UART for other
> low-level messages.
>
> The assumption for both the uart ports is that they are pre-configured
> in the bootloader. Since they are essentially the same always, it
> would be good to consolidate them to use only one macro, in this case
> 'DEBUG_S3C_UART' would be a better option.
>
> 'DEBUG_S3C_UART' is defined only if DEBUG_LL is enabled. We can safely
> disable this option when DEBUG_LL is not defined and we can boot various
> boards with different UART port settings. Only drawback of this
> approach is that when DEBUG_LL is not defined, we would be missing the
> print "Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel."

Perfectly acceptable to me (and already the case on OMAP.)

> Since CONFIG_S3C_LOWLEVEL_UART_PORT is still used by other Samsung
> boards, the consolidation applies only for ARCH_EXYNOS.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tushar Behera <tushar.behera at linaro.org>

Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman at linaro.org>




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