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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 2/2] arch/x86: remove pci uart early console from early_prink.c
On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 12:16:36AM +0000, Anderson, Stuart R wrote:
> Bin, et al,
>
> What we are losing here is the ability to specify a UART by its bus address
> instead of just supplying the memory or io address. There are some cases
> where this is useful, though I admit it is probably not going to be widely
> used. I have seen a platform where the location of the UART moves depending
> on the firmware version, but the bus address (B:D.F) did not change. There
> are also some platforms where you do not know the address until you boot the
> OS and can use the UART to login and find the address of the UART (oops.
> Chicken and egg problem).
>
> Also, I was going to soon send a patch to allow "pciserial32" for the case where the UART registers are 32-bit aligned instead of 8-bit aligned.
>
> Stuart
>

Theare are several reasons that we want to move it to serial_core.
First, pci is arch independent, so putting these codes in serial_core
(which is arch independent) makes more sense.
Second, B:D.F may change across SoCs, then to support new SoC we only
need change command line but don't need to change the code.
Lastly, there could be other non-x86 platforms using it in the future.

-Bin


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