Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:43:41 -0700 | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | Re: 3 Serial issues up for discussion (was: Re: Serial core problems on embedded PPC) |
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 06:17:02PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> 1. Serial port initialisation > ----------------------------- > > Firstly, one thing to bear in mind here is that, as Alan says "be nice > to make sure it was much earlier". I guess Alan's right, so we can get > oopsen out of the the kernel relatively easily, even when we're using > framebuffer consoles. > > I'm sure Alan will enlighten us with his specific reasons if required. > > There have been several suggestions around on how to fix this table: > > a. architectures provide a sub-module to 8250.c which contains the > per-port details, rather than a table in serial.h. This would > ideally mean removing serial.h completely. The relevant object > would be linked into 8250.c when 8250.c is built as a module.
I think this would work best. On PPC this would allow us to change the mess of include/asm-ppc/serial.h into a slightly cleaner Makefile (especially if we do the automagic <platforms/platform.h> or <asm/platform.h> bit that's been talked about in the past) magic and we could use that object file as well in the bootwrapper as well.
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