Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] serial: earlycon: allow to specify uartclk in earlycon kernel-parameter

From	Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] serial: earlycon: allow to specify uartclk in earlycon kernel-parameter
Date	2015-10-21 17:40 +0200
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Hi Masahiro,

On 10/21/2015 11:31 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> If it is always correct to preserve the initialization done by boot-loader,
> the following code in 8250_early.c does not make sense.

It's not always correct to preserve the initialization by the bootloader.
For example, on my legacy x86 workstation, the bootloader does not
initialize the h/w so when I want 8250 earlycon, I must specify the
baud rate.

Regards,
Peter Hurley
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[PATCH v2 0/2] serial: console: add two features Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2015-10-20 05:40 +0200
  [PATCH v2 1/2] serial: support register interface with 16-bit stride for console Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2015-10-20 05:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] serial: support register interface with 16-bit  stride for console Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> - 2015-10-20 15:50 +0200
  [PATCH v2 2/2] serial: earlycon: allow to specify uartclk in earlycon kernel-parameter Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2015-10-20 05:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] serial: earlycon: allow to specify uartclk in  earlycon kernel-parameter Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> - 2015-10-20 16:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] serial: earlycon: allow to specify uartclk in  earlycon kernel-parameter Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2015-10-21 03:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] serial: earlycon: allow to specify uartclk in  earlycon kernel-parameter Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> - 2015-10-21 14:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] serial: earlycon: allow to specify uartclk in  earlycon kernel-parameter Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> - 2015-10-21 17:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] serial: earlycon: allow to specify uartclk in  earlycon kernel-parameter Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2015-10-22 06:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] serial: earlycon: allow to specify uartclk in  earlycon kernel-parameter Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2015-10-21 17:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] serial: earlycon: allow to specify uartclk in  earlycon kernel-parameter Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2015-10-22 17:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] serial: earlycon: allow to specify uartclk in  earlycon kernel-parameter Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2015-10-23 13:20 +0200

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