[RESEND PATCH v2] ARM: debug: add support for Palmchip BK-310x UART

Måns Rullgård mans at mansr.com
Tue Jan 26 16:44:44 PST 2016


Kevin Hilman <khilman at baylibre.com> writes:

> Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez at sigmadesigns.com> writes:
>
>> From: Mans Rullgard <mans at mansr.com>
>>
>> Some SoCs use a Palmchip BK-310x UART which is mostly 16550 compatible
>> but with a different register layout.
>
> ... because UART register layout is where we really need innovation. ;)
>
>> While this UART has previously
>> only been supported in MIPS based chips (Alchemy, Ralink), the ARM based
>> SMP87xx series from Sigma Designs also uses it.
>>
>> This patch allows the debug console to work with this type of UART.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans at mansr.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez at sigmadesigns.com>
>
> It appears this was previously acked by Arnd also?
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/9/116
>
>> ---
>> Peter, this is the patch I've been using on Tango for earlyprintk support.
>> arm-soc, this is just the Nov 8 patch with my Signed-off-by tag.
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/Kconfig.debug            |  9 +++++++++
>>  arch/arm/include/debug/palmchip.S | 11 +++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/debug/palmchip.S
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug b/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug
>> index 259c0ca9c99a..708aa9150c00 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug
>> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug
>> @@ -1304,6 +1304,7 @@ config DEBUG_SIRFSOC_UART
>>  config DEBUG_LL_INCLUDE
>>  	string
>>  	default "debug/sa1100.S" if DEBUG_SA1100
>> +	default "debug/palmchip.S" if DEBUG_UART_8250_PALMCHIP
>
> minor nit: We're trying (not always with great success) to keep various
> parts of this file sorted alphanumerically.  Can you please insert the
> new entries accordingly?

It has to precede the regular 8250 entry so as to take precedence over
that.

> Otherwise looks good to me,
>
> Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman at baylibre.com>
>
> Kevin

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