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Re: [PATCH 01/10] serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for Armada-3700 serial port

From Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 01/10] serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for Armada-3700 serial port
Date 2016-02-03 18:10 +0100
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On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 05:56:56PM +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>  
>  On mar., févr. 02 2016, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> >> index 87d40a72f6a1..198f6bd56e84 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> >> +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> >> @@ -1058,6 +1058,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
> >>  			A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
> >>  			port must already be setup and configured.
> >>  
> >> +		mvebu_uart,<addr>
> >> +			Start an early, polled-mode console on an some mvebu
> >> +			SoC (as the Armada-3700) serial port at the specified
> >> +			address. The serial port must already be setup and
> >> +			configured. Options are not yet supported.
> >> +
> >
> > Does the the mvebu UART vary between platforms at all?
> 
> I am not sure to undersatnd your question.
> 
> If you asked about the UART used on the other mvebu SoCs then my answer
> is: on all the other mvebu SoC until now third party IPs were used.

Ah, I hadn't realised that.

> This one is the first one dedicated to an mevbu SoC and currently only
> used on Armada 3700 but I don't know what are the plan for the future
> mvebu SoCs.

Given that, I think it would be better to use "armada3700_uart=" for
now, given it doesn't cover all mvebu SoCs.

Thanks,
Mark.

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[PATCH 00/10] Add support for the Armada 3700 SoC an mvebu ARM64 based Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-02 19:10 +0100
  [PATCH 01/10] serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for Armada-3700 serial port Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-02 19:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 01/10] serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for  Armada-3700 serial port Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-02-02 19:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 01/10] serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for  Armada-3700 serial port Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-02-02 19:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 01/10] serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for  Armada-3700 serial port One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-02-02 19:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 01/10] serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for Armada-3700 serial port Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-03 17:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 01/10] serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for  Armada-3700 serial port Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-02-02 19:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 01/10] serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for Armada-3700 serial port Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-03 17:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 01/10] serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for Armada-3700 serial port Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-03 18:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 01/10] serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for  Armada-3700 serial port Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-02-03 18:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 01/10] serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for Armada-3700 serial port Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-02-02 22:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 01/10] serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for Armada-3700 serial port Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-03 17:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 01/10] serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for  Armada-3700 serial port Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-02-02 22:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 01/10] serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for Armada-3700  serial port Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com> - 2016-02-03 09:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 01/10] serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for Armada-3700 serial port Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-03 17:50 +0100
  [PATCH 04/10] Documentation: dt-bindings: Add a new compatible for the Armada 3700 Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-02 19:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 04/10] Documentation: dt-bindings: Add a new compatible  for the Armada 3700 Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-02-02 22:30 +0100
  [PATCH 08/10] MAINTAINERS: Extend dts entry for ARM64 mvebu files Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-02 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 07/10] arm64: dts: add the Marvell Armada 3700 family and a development board Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-02 19:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 07/10] arm64: dts: add the Marvell Armada 3700 family and  a development board Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-02-02 19:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 07/10] arm64: dts: add the Marvell Armada 3700 family and a development board Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-03 11:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 07/10] arm64: dts: add the Marvell Armada 3700 family  and a development board Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com> - 2016-02-03 07:50 +0100
  [PATCH 02/10] ata: ahci_mvebu: add support for Armada 3700 variant Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-02 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 09/10] Documentation: arm: update supported Marvell EBU processors Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-02 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 10/10] arm64: defconfig: enable Armada 3700 related config Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-02 19:20 +0100
  [PATCH 06/10] devicetree: bindings: add DT binding for the Marvell Armada 3700 SoC family Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-02 19:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 06/10] devicetree: bindings: add DT binding for the  Marvell Armada 3700 SoC family Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-02-02 22:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 06/10] devicetree: bindings: add DT binding for the Marvell Armada 3700 SoC family Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-03 09:10 +0100
  [PATCH 03/10] arm64: add Armada 3700 architecture entry Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-02 19:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 03/10] arm64: add Armada 3700 architecture entry Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com> - 2016-02-03 07:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 03/10] arm64: add Armada 3700 architecture entry Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-03 09:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 03/10] arm64: add Armada 3700 architecture entry Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-02-03 10:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 03/10] arm64: add Armada 3700 architecture entry Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> - 2016-02-03 12:20 +0100

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