[PATCH 7/7] [POWERPC] Xilinx: Update booting-without-of.
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at sunsite.dk
Mon Dec 17 22:57:36 EST 2007
>>>>> "Grant" == Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> writes:
Hi,
>> > 3) Uartlite requires a port-number property for the console to work.
>>
>> Why? In general we try to avoid magical sequence numbers - cell-index
>> should *only* be used when it's needed to index or program some shared
>> register.
Grant> Aliases is probably the correct construct for this.
Grant> port-number was a bad idea and I never should have gone that
Grant> direction.
Perhaps it would make more sense to add a _find_match_or_unused(port)
like 8250.c and make the initialization order define the index instead
of explicitly setting it?
Now we're at it - Why isn't the uartlite of glue handled by of_serial.c?
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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