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Re: [PATCH v2] tty: amba-pl011: Use 32-bit accesses for SBSA UART

From Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2] tty: amba-pl011: Use 32-bit accesses for SBSA UART
Date 2016-03-12 00:40 +0100
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On March 11, 2016 10:02:14 PM GMT+07:00, Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> wrote:
>Hi Christopher,
>
>On 03/10/2016 10:35 PM, Christopher Covington wrote:
>> Version 2 of the Server Base System Architecture (SBSAv2) describes
>the
>> Generic UART registers as 32 bits wide. At least one implementation,
>found
>> on the Qualcomm Technologies QDF2432, only supports 32 bit accesses.
>> SBSAv3, which describes supported access sizes in greater detail,
>> explicitly requires support for both 16 and 32 bit accesses to all
>> registers (and 8 bit accesses to some but not all). Therefore, for
>broad
>> compatibility, simply use 32 bit accessors for the SBSA UART.
>
>So this eliminates the need to configure SBSA port via ACPI, correct?
>Thus, Aleksey can drop his "serial: pl011: use SPCR to setup 32-bit
>access"?

Yes.

Thanks,
Christopher Covington

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[PATCH] tty: amba-pl011: Use 32-bit accesses for SBSA UART Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org> - 2016-03-08 06:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] tty: amba-pl011: Use 32-bit accesses for SBSA UART Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo@redhat.com> - 2016-03-08 16:00 +0100
  [PATCH] tty: amba-pl011: Use 32-bit accesses for SBSA UART Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org> - 2016-03-11 07:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] tty: amba-pl011: Use 32-bit accesses for SBSA UART Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> - 2016-03-11 16:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2] tty: amba-pl011: Use 32-bit accesses for SBSA UART Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org> - 2016-03-12 00:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] tty: amba-pl011: Use 32-bit accesses for SBSA UART Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> - 2016-03-15 11:10 +0100

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