Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] ARM: dts: consolidate aliases for Cygnus dt files | From | Ray Jui <> | Date | Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:46:23 -0700 |
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On 9/23/2015 2:31 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 18 September 2015 14:44:54 Ray Jui wrote: >> On 9/18/2015 2:27 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> On Friday 18 September 2015 14:24:06 Ray Jui wrote: >>> >>> The SoC has at least four uarts according to this, so it seems unlikely that >>> each board really only uses only the fourth one of them and labels it '0' >>> on the board. As soon as you get one board that has more than one uart wired >>> up, you would need to undo this. >>> >> >> I think Scott might have explained this in the past. uart3 is going to >> be used on all Cygnus boards (including all future boards) because the >> bootrom was designed to use uart3 as console and that won't change. >> >> Let me know if you still think I need to move this back to the dts. > > I would still like to see them stay in the .dts file, if only for > consistency with other platforms. > > Also, even if you can guarantee that uart3 is always used for the > console, that doesn't prevent board designers from adding more than > one uart, right? > > Arnd >
Okay. Given that this patch series has been merged by Florian, I'll submit another patch to move it back to .dts files.
Thanks,
Ray
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