[Skiboot] [PATCH] Enable Simics UART console

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Mar 7 19:36:12 AEDT 2016


Ryan Grimm <grimm at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> The UART is a simulated ns16550 with memory mapped registers.
>
> A /simics dt node is detected and a SIMICS_QUIRK is added to chip quirks
> similar to MAMBO_CALLOUTS.  It can contain an ns16550 dt node with a property
> console-bar.
>
> The LPC UART code is reused and this will work without an LPC bus in the model.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Grimm <grimm at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks, merged to master as of 6871039.

I'm not sure if we could do this a bit cleaner and be a bit more
generic... maybe that's a good task for a future newcomer :)

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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