[PATCH v2 1/9] ARM: dts: consolidate aliases for Cygnus dt files

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 14:48:50 PDT 2015


On 23/09/15 14:46, Ray Jui wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/23/2015 2:31 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Friday 18 September 2015 14:44:54 Ray Jui wrote:
>>> On 9/18/2015 2:27 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>> On Friday 18 September 2015 14:24:06 Ray Jui wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The SoC has at least four uarts according to this, so it seems unlikely that
>>>> each board really only uses only the fourth one of them and labels it '0'
>>>> on the board. As soon as you get one board that has more than one uart wired
>>>> up, you would need to undo this.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think Scott might have explained this in the past. uart3 is going to
>>> be used on all Cygnus boards (including all future boards) because the
>>> bootrom was designed to use uart3 as console and that won't change.
>>>
>>> Let me know if you still think I need to move this back to the dts.
>>
>> I would still like to see them stay in the .dts file, if only for
>> consistency with other platforms. 
>>
>> Also, even if you can guarantee that uart3 is always used for the
>> console, that doesn't prevent board designers from adding more than
>> one uart, right?
>>
>> 	Arnd
>>
> 
> Okay. Given that this patch series has been merged by Florian, I'll
> submit another patch to move it back to .dts files.

You could send me either a replacement patch series (all 9), or an
individual patch to replace a previous version (e.g; replace v2 with a
v3), or an incremental one, whatever works for you.

Thanks!
-- 
Florian



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