[PATCH] tty: amba-pl011: add options to earlycon for 32-bit reg access

Timur Tabi timur at codeaurora.org
Thu Nov 5 18:00:27 PST 2015


Peter Hurley wrote:
> Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my previous comments regarding this
> approach; I see no benefit to re-using the pl011 earlycon definition.
> Just define a completely new earlycon for sbsa32 (and zte):
>
> EARLYCON_DECLARE(sbsa32, sbsa32_early_console_setup);
>
> Example:
> 	earlycon=sbsa32,0x3ced1000

Sounds like six of one, half-dozen of another.  But I'm happy to modify 
my patch accordingly.  It will avoid the strcmp, but I'm not sure it 
will reduce the actual number of lines of code.

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