Re: [PATCH v2 18/20] mips: csrc-r4k: Decrease r4k-clocksource rating if CPU_FREQ enabled

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Wed May 20 2020 - 14:40:41 EST


On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 04:48:26PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 03:38:27PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 03:12:01PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> > > Since you don't like the way I initially fixed it, suppose there we don't have
> > > another way but to introduce something like CONFIG_MIPS_CPS_NS16550_WIDTH
> > > parameter to select a proper accessors, like sw in our case, and sb by defaul).
> > > Right?
> >
> > to be on the safe side it's probably the best thing. But I don't know
> > enough about CPS_NS16550 to judge whether shift value correlates with
> > possible access width.
>
> The base address passed to the _mips_cps_putc() leaf is UART-base address. It
> has nothing to do with CPS. See:

ok, I'm confused. So this isn't an uart inside CPS hardware, but an uart used
by CPS code for debug output, right ?

To solve the issued please add CONFIG_MIPS_CPS_NS16550_WIDTH to select the
correct access width.

Thomas.

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