[0/14] Ebony support, 2nd spin

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 08:46 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 15:16 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 February 2007 15:05, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > Which probably has something to do with the of_serial driver being used
> > > now.  Just an FYI.
> > 
> > If you want to use of_serial together with serial console, you need
> > to make sure that the detection logic in arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c
> > finds the port. It currently finds the serial port on axon, but that
> > requires that the bus it's on is of type "opb" and the device itself
> > is listed as "stdout" and has type "serial" and is compatible with
> > "ns16750" (note: the others look for "ns16550" here).
> 
> The ebony dts has the ports as ns16550.  That is required for the
> bootwrapper to find the port to use for it's output at the moment.

And the ebony dts also has the a bus type of "ibm,opb" as well.

I hacked legacy_serial.c to look for ns16550 compatible devices with a
parent OPB node of type "ibm,opb" and I got serial output on the Ebony
board even with of_serial turned off.

We should look for both "ns16550" and "ns16750" compatible devices in
legacy_serial.c.  As for the bus type, we could look for both types or
the ebony.dts could change to use "opb" instead of "ibm,opb".

josh