Re: [PATCH v2 REBASED 00/10] Generic earlyconsole for ARC UART Driver

From: Rob Herring
Date: Tue Jun 24 2014 - 17:05:57 EST


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Vineet Gupta
<Vineet.Gupta1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is slightly modified repost of series posted last week
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg12884.html
>
> This series switches ARC UART from custom earlyprintk support to generic
> earlycon (many thanks to Rob for doing that). And also build on Grant's recent
> work for using DT stdout-path as default console.
>
> The motivation is to get rid of the early platform code, which in turn
> would help consolidate the init code across several ARC platforms.
>
> First 3 patches are general cleanup/refactoring, not necesarily related to
> earlycon.

Other than my comment on patch 6:

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
> v2 <- v1
> --------
> * Rebased on linux-next: 20140623
> * Patch 9 split into 9 and 10 for driver/platform changes
> * Patch 10 also uses the DT stdout-path so no need for console=
>
>
> Thx,
> -Vineet
>
>
> Vineet Gupta (10):
> serial/arc: use uart_console_write() helper
> serial/arc: Refactor by referencing to uart_port where possible
> serial/arc: Remove the workaround for legacy ISS
> serial/arc: Use generic earlycon infrastructure
> serial/arc: remove earlyprintk support and switch to earlycon
> serial/arc: remove last remanants of platform data
> serial/arc: inline the probe helper
> ARC: [arcfpga] RIP early uart platform device stuff
> serial/arc: Enable DT based earlycon
> ARC: [arcfpga] stdout-path now suffices for earlycon/console
>
> arch/arc/boot/dts/angel4.dts | 3 +-
> arch/arc/plat-arcfpga/Kconfig | 7 -
> arch/arc/plat-arcfpga/platform.c | 97 +-----------
> drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c | 329 ++++++++++++++-------------------------
> 5 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 314 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 1.8.3.2
>
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