Re: [PATCH v1 0/9] riscv: add initial support for SpacemiT K1

[Conor Dooley]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 01:42:34AM +0800, Yangyu Chen wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Jun 18, 2024, at 01:14, Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 12:39:30AM +0800, Yangyu Chen wrote:
> >> 
> >> The vendor uses a special intel pxa uart driver, marked deprecated
> >> in the kernel and incompatible with ns16550. If we use ns16550 in
> >> the dt, the behavior of uart is like the uart has no interrupt and
> >> stops working permanently when fifo overruns, making many developers
> >> not know how to start unless they use the SBI HVC console, which
> >> needs to turn on CONFIG_NONPORTABLE.
> > 
> > This I just do not understand. Why did they use this IP? Is it free?
> > Did they use it before for something else? It's a rather strange design
> > choice to me.
> 
> I don't know either. However, PXA is a subfamily of XScale. The
> kernel also probed the UART as an XScale. So, using XScale compatible
> string is OK.

Using a fallback to an Xscale compatible is okay, FTFY ;)

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