[PATCH V2 4/4] ARM64 LPC: support earlycon for UART connected to LPC

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Sep 7 07:52:26 PDT 2016


On Wednesday, September 7, 2016 9:33:53 PM CEST Zhichang Yuan wrote:
> From: "zhichang.yuan" <yuanzhichang at hisilicon.com>
> 
> This patch support the earlycon for UART connected to LPC on Hip06.
> This patch is depended on the LPC driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: zhichang.yuan <yuanzhichang at hisilicon.com>
> 

I'm skeptical about this too. Is this just needed because the 8250
earlycon support comes before the lpc bus initialization?

Could we start the LPC driver earlier to work around that?

	Arnd




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