[PATCH V3 2/4] ARM64 LPC: LPC driver implementation on Hip06

[John Garry]

On 02/10/2016 23:03, Jon Masters wrote:
> On 09/14/2016 02:32 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 10:50:44 PM CEST zhichang.yuan wrote:
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>>> And there are probably multiple child devices under LPC, the global arm64_extio_ops only can cover one PIO range. It is fortunate only ipmi driver can not support I/O
>>> operation registering, serial driver has serial_in/serial_out to
>>> be registered. So, only the PIO range for ipmi device is stored
>>> in arm64_extio_ops and the indirect-IO
>>> works well for ipmi device.
>>
>> You should not do that in the serial driver, please just use the
>> normal 8250 driver that works fine once you handle the entire
>> port range.
>
> Just for the record, Arnd has the right idea. There is only one type of
> UART permitted by SBSA (PL011). We carved out an exception for a design
> that was already in flight and allowed it to be 16550. That other design
> was then corrected in future generations to be PL011 as we required it
> to be. Then there's the Hip06. I've given feedback elsewhere about the
> need for there to be (at most) two types of UART in the wild. This "LPC"
> stuff needs cleaning up (feedback given elsewhere already on that), but
> we won't be adding a third serial driver into the mix in order to make
> it work. There will be standard ARM servers. There will not be the
> kinda-sorta-standard. Thanks.
>

Right, so I think Zhichang can make the necessary generic changes to 
8250 OF driver to support IO port as well as MMIO-based.

However an LPC-based earlycon driver is still required.

A note on hip07-based D05 (for those unaware): this does not use 
LPC-based uart. It uses PL011. The hardware guys have managed some 
trickery where they loopback the serial line around the BMC/CPLD. But we 
still need it for hip06 D03 and any other boards which want to use LPC 
bus for uart.

A question on SBSA: does it propose how to provide serial via BMC for SOL?


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