[PATCH] drivers: char: hvc: add arm JTAG DCC console support

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Wed Dec 1 06:57:48 EST 2010


On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Daniel Walker wrote:

> This driver adds a basic console that uses the arm JTAG
> DCC to transfer data back and forth. It has support for
> ARMv6 and ARMv7.
> 
> This console is created under the HVC driver, and should be named
> /dev/hvcX (or /dev/hvc0 for example).
> 
> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>
> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker at codeaurora.org>

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>

This doesn't support both ARMv6 and ARMv7 at run time, but this can 
trivially be added later when needed.


Nicolas


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