[PATCH v3 0/5] ACPI: parse the SPCR table

[Christopher Covington]

On February 15, 2016 1:05:24 PM EST, Aleksey Makarov <aleksey.makarov at linaro.org> wrote:
>This patchset is based on the patchset by Leif Lindholm [1]
>
>'ARM Server Base Boot Requirements' [2] mentions SPCR (Serial Port
>Console Redirection Table) [3] as a mandatory ACPI table that
>specifies the configuration of serial console.
>
>SPCR support is included in QEMU's ARM mach-virt since 2.4 release.
>
>Introduce a new function acpi_console_check().  At the uart port
>registration, this function checks if the ACPI SPCR table specifies
>its argument of type struct uart_port to be a console
>and if so calls add_preferred_console().
>
>Use SPCR to tell if SBSA serial driver should use 32-bit access to
>registers.

On QDF2432:

Tested-by: Christopher Covington <cov at codeaurora.org>

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