Re: [PATCH] ARM: fix DEBUG_UART_PHYS/VIRT issue when modifying DEBUG_LL output

From: Thomas Petazzoni
Date: Wed Jun 17 2015 - 16:10:17 EST


Russell,

On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 20:40:58 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> > Russell, what do you think of the proposed approach?
>
> I'd rather we killed all the defaults, rather than keep trying to fix
> these subtle issues. That was always my goal of converting to this
> model anyway.
>
> However, I think it's important not to loose this information (how many
> of us with lots of different platforms want to keep on digging through
> PDFs to try and find this documentation?) I'd like to see a per-SoC
> file somewhere in Documentation/arm/ giving these details so at least
> they're relatively easy to find.

I personally find having the defaults for various popular platforms
readily available in menuconfig to be a lot easier than having to dig
some documentation to find the appropriate addresses.

I.e, the current way is perfect. It's just that there is no need to
show the physical/virtual addresses if an existing well-known platform
is selected, especially as it causes weird behavior due to how kconfig
works. Which Boris patch is solving.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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