[PATCH] [POWERPC] Xilinx: Boot: Fix 16550 UART initialization

[Grant Likely]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:57 PM, John Linn <John.Linn at xilinx.com> wrote:
> That makes sense.  Since I'm not using a boot loader I didn't realize
>  that.
>
>  I'm not sure how hard it will be to get the data from the device tree at
>  that time.

You should be good.  It is now possible to read data from the device
tree at platform_init() time.

Cheers,
g.

>  What about checking to see if it's setup assuming that's possible by
>  looking at registers, and then not messing with it if it's already
>  setup, otherwise do what my patch does.

Ugh.  The old arch/ppc code used to do this and it was kind of ugly
and fragile.  I'd rather avoid doing it again.

Cheers,
g.

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