Re: [PATCH V2 4/4] ARM64 LPC: support earlycon for UART connected to LPC

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Sep 07 2016 - 10:53:43 EST


On Wednesday, September 7, 2016 9:33:53 PM CEST Zhichang Yuan wrote:
> From: "zhichang.yuan" <yuanzhichang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch support the earlycon for UART connected to LPC on Hip06.
> This patch is depended on the LPC driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: zhichang.yuan <yuanzhichang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>

I'm skeptical about this too. Is this just needed because the 8250
earlycon support comes before the lpc bus initialization?

Could we start the LPC driver earlier to work around that?

Arnd