[PATCH v13 5/5] uart: pl011: Add support to ZTE ZX296702 uart

Timur Tabi timur at codeaurora.org
Mon Oct 26 05:46:42 PDT 2015


Andre Przywara wrote:
> I tried to refactor the driver lately to split up SBSA and PL011 support
> and got something that compiles, though I wasn't fully satisfied and I
> ran out of time. The refactor idea was to split driver runtime from
> initialization, so the different probe and init functions can be moved
> into separate files. There would be one stub file with all the core
> driver logic (DMA, IRQ handling, buffer handling, communication
> parameters setup) and one file for each subtype (PL011, SBSA, ZTE, you
> name it).
> If people are interested, I can try to clean this up and post it as an RFC.

I am interested.  We need support for subtype 13, because our hardware 
only supports 32-bit access to all registers.  We have an internal patch 
that replaces all of the read/write routines with vendor function calls. 
  I would need to refactor our patch on top of yours.

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