serial ports on 8245

[Marius Groeger]

In linux.ppc.embedded, you wrote:
>
> >mpc10x_bridge_init() is always called before $(PLATFORM)_map_io()
>
> No -- it's the other way around. Mapping IO is very early.

Sorry, you're right.

Regarding the serial driver initialization: the serial driver actually
provides a way to initialize the serial ports at run-time:

---------------------------------------------------------------
/*
 * This is for use by architectures that know their serial console
 * attributes only at run time. Not to be invoked after rs_init().
 */
int __init early_serial_setup(struct serial_struct *req) {...}
---------------------------------------------------------------

This could be used to register the duarts with a dynamically calculated
(ioremap()'ed) iomem_base, which probably only leaves ppc_md.progress() to
deal with.

--
Regards,
Marius.

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Marius Groeger        SYSGO Real-Time Solutions GmbH    www.sysgo.de
Software Engineering  Embedded and Real-Time Software   www.osek.de
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