Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:58:47 +0000 | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] arm: add early_ioremap support |
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 04:11:03PM +0000, Rob Herring wrote: > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> wrote: > > This patch uses the generic early_ioremap code to implement > > early_ioremap for ARM. The ARM-specific bits come mostly from > > an earlier patch from Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> > > here: > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/3/279 > > I think this will be useful to implement an arm64 style earlycon for > arm as the current DEBUG_LL doesn't really work with multi-platform > kernels. I started on this and quickly realized I needed the fixmap > support.
It would be even better if you can make it more generic (drivers/tty/serial/) and keep DEBUG_LL as a specialised case for arch/arm (when !multi-platform).
-- Catalin
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