Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:25:22 +0530 | From | Vineet Gupta <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] serial/arc-uart: switch to devicetree based probing |
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On Friday 11 January 2013 05:03 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 11 January 2013, Vineet Gupta wrote: >> * DT binding for arc-uart >> * With alll the bits in place we can now use DT probing. >> >> Note that there's a bit of kludge right now because earlyprintk portion >> of driver can't use the DT infrastrcuture to get resoures/plat_data. >> This requires some infrastructre changes to of_flat_ framework >> >> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> >> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> >> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> >> Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org >> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> >> Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org >> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com> >> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> >> Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > > Quick question about the name though: is this UART only used > on ARC, or is it something that synopsys licenses to other > parties as well? If the latter is true, we might want to > add a more generic "compatible" value for those that use > it on another architecture.
It's not licensed as standalone IP - since its not a standard 8250. It is only (but actively) used on the internal FPGA flows from ARC days.
Thx, Vineet
> Arnd
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