[PATCH v7 05/15] ARM: mxs: Add low-level debug UART support

Wolfram Sang w.sang at pengutronix.de
Mon Dec 20 08:55:35 EST 2010


> > We should use asm/hardware/debug-pl01x.S, like the other users:
> 
> Just tested it, and it works.  Will do in v8.  Thanks for the comment.

Cool.

> > 
> > >  arch/arm/mach-mxs/include/mach/uncompress.h  |   76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 
> > Auto-detection could be used here, too?
> > 
> I'm afraid not.  How do you expect the detection is done, by reading
> some register like we are doing in system.c?

I am not sure which register you mean in system.c?

> Which register specifically?

The signature of the amba device (base + size - 0x20). You can check
drivers/amba/bus.c how it checks for the signature.

> If the register gets different address between
> mx23 and mx28, we need to utilize the current mechanism to
> distinguish the address anyway.

We could simply test both locations and see where it is present?

Kind regards,

   Wolfram

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