UART Route setting

[Avi Fishman]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 6:34 AM Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2018, at 12:50, Oskar Senft wrote:
> > Interesting suggestion, that looks promising, thank you?
> >
> > What's the state of that driver? I.e. where do we expect it to land?
>
> If you think the bmc-misc-ctrl series is useful, please reply to the
> upstream thread to outline all of your use-cases. There's a lot of push-
> back on using the devicetree to describe these features, and I haven't
> had a lot of feedback on the acceptability of the rest (driver itself,
> userspace ABI).
>
> The more evidence we have of this being necessary/useful the better.

Oskar,
Here is the link to put your support:
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/961584/

>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
> >
> > Thanks
> > Oskar.
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 1, 2018, 10:12 PM Lei YU <mine260309 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 9:55 AM Oskar Senft <osk at google.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Andrew
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the suggestion. I see that the register would map quite
> > > nicely to pinmux. However, the ability to change the configuration from
> > > user space is critical. How could that be done via pinmux?
> > >
> > > I believe Andrew Jeffery's [bmc-misc-ctr][1] driver is perfect for this
> > > requirement:
> > > 1. You can define related registers in dts and expose as sysfs attributes
> > > 2. User space is able to read/write the sysfs attributes to do what you
> > > need
> > >    to configure.
> > >
> > > [1]: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/942322/
> > >



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Regards,
Avi