[PATCH v9 2/2] tty: serial: meson: Add a earlycon for the T7 SoC

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sat Aug 26 12:59:45 PDT 2023


On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 07:07:18PM +0100, Lucas Tanure wrote:
> On 23-08-2023 09:29, Dmitry Rokosov wrote:
> > Hello Lucas,
> > 
> > Thank you for the patch! Please find my small comment below.
> > 
> > On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 09:01:28AM +0100, Lucas Tanure wrote:
> > > The new Amlogic T7 SoC does not have a always-on uart,
> > > so add OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE for it.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Lucas Tanure <tanure at linux.com>
> > > Acked-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong at linaro.org>
> > > ---
> > > Since v8:
> > >   - Fix issues with git send-mail command line
> > > Since v7:
> > >   - Send to the correct maintainers
> > > 
> > >   drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c | 2 ++
> > >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c
> > > index 790d910dafa5..c4f61d82fb72 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c
> > > @@ -648,6 +648,8 @@ meson_serial_early_console_setup(struct earlycon_device *device, const char *opt
> > >   OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE(meson, "amlogic,meson-ao-uart",
> > >   		    meson_serial_early_console_setup);
> > > +OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE(meson, "amlogic,t7-uart",
> > > +		    meson_serial_early_console_setup);
> > >   #define MESON_SERIAL_CONSOLE_PTR(_devname) (&meson_serial_console_##_devname)
> > >   #else
> > 
> > I suppose you need to add a separate meson_t7_uart_data to switch the T7
> > UART to a regular TTY devname 'ttyS'. For the new Amlogic SoCs, we have
> > agreed to use 'ttyS' instead of 'ttyAML'. Please refer to the already
> > applied patch series at [1] and the IRC discussion at [2].
> > 
> > Links:
> >      [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230705181833.16137-1-ddrokosov@sberdevices.ru/
> >      [2] https://libera.irclog.whitequark.org/linux-amlogic/2023-07-03
> > 
> I asked Greg to drop this patch as is not need anymore.
> T7 will use S4 TTY/UART code.

I can't drop it, I need a revert :(



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