[PATCH v2 4/4] ARM: dts: keystone: Add "ti, da830-uart" compatible string

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com
Wed Jan 4 14:00:01 PST 2017


On 1/4/2017 12:30 PM, David Lechner wrote:
> The TI Keystone SoCs have extra UART registers beyond the standard 8250
> registers, so we need a new compatible string to indicate this. Also, at
> least one of these registers uses the full 32 bits, so we need to specify
> reg-io-width in addition to reg-shift.
>
> "ns16550a" is left in the compatible specification since it does work as
> long as the bootloader configures the SoC UART power management registers.
>
NAK!!
We can't break the booting boards with existing boot loaders.
I suggest you to first get the driver updated to take care of
the UART PM register and then enable the support for it.





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