[PATCH 11/11] tty: amba-pl011: add support for ZTE UART (EXPERIMENTAL)

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Thu Nov 5 01:54:58 PST 2015


On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 09:28:23AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Russell King
>> <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > Add (incomplete) support for the ZTE UART to the AMBA PL011 driver.
>> > This is similar to the ARM and ST variants, except it has a different
>> > register address layout, and requires 32-bit accesses to the registers.
>> > Use the newly introduced register tables and access size support to
>> > cope with these differences.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
>>
>> I applied the whole series, 1-11 and tested on Ux500 (ST Micro variant)
>> and on the ARM RealView PB11MPCore.
>>
>> It works like a charm. I also like the looks of this transformation.
>> Tested-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>
> As I mentioned, the change in pl011_putc() needs undoing (I've already
> modified that in my series).  Also, I'll try switching to the relaxed
> accessors and checking that.  Thanks for the tested-by though, can I
> assume that you're happy I add that even with the pl011_putc() change
> undone?

Sure. I'm pretty sure that doesn't change much.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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