[PATCH v2 0/2] serial: 8250: move mmp|pxa uart earlycon code and add xscale earlycon

Yixun Lan dlan at gentoo.org
Tue Jan 21 12:54:13 PST 2025


Hi Greg, Jisheng:

how is this patch going, hope it isn't lost..
generally this patch looks good.

On 00:07 Fri 12 Jul     , Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> There are two other drivers that bind to "mrvl,mmp-uart": the 8250_of
> and the 8250_pxa. The previous one is generic and the latter is binded
> to ARCH_PXA || ARCH_MMP. Now we may have pxa programming compatible
> HW to support, making use of the generic 8250_of seems a good idea.
> However, there's no earlycon support if we go with this solution. So
> move the mmp|pxa-uart earlycon code to core 8250_early.c.
> 
> patch2 adds xscale earlycon support too, only build test since
> I have no xscale machine any more.
> 
> Since v1:
>   - split the patch into two as suggested by Greg
> 
> Jisheng Zhang (2):
>   serial: 8250: move mmp|pxa uart earlycon code
>   serial: 8250_early: add xscale earlycon support
> 
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c | 11 +++++++++++
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pxa.c   | 16 ----------------
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 
Reviewed-by: Yixun Lan <dlan at gentoo.org>
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Yixun Lan (dlan)
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