Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] serial: 8250: move mmp|pxa uart earlycon code and add xscale earlycon

From: Yixun Lan
Date: Tue Jan 21 2025 - 15:54:32 EST


Hi Greg, Jisheng:

how is this patch going, hope it isn't lost..
generally this patch looks good.

On 00:07 Fri 12 Jul , Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> There are two other drivers that bind to "mrvl,mmp-uart": the 8250_of
> and the 8250_pxa. The previous one is generic and the latter is binded
> to ARCH_PXA || ARCH_MMP. Now we may have pxa programming compatible
> HW to support, making use of the generic 8250_of seems a good idea.
> However, there's no earlycon support if we go with this solution. So
> move the mmp|pxa-uart earlycon code to core 8250_early.c.
>
> patch2 adds xscale earlycon support too, only build test since
> I have no xscale machine any more.
>
> Since v1:
> - split the patch into two as suggested by Greg
>
> Jisheng Zhang (2):
> serial: 8250: move mmp|pxa uart earlycon code
> serial: 8250_early: add xscale earlycon support
>
> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c | 11 +++++++++++
> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pxa.c | 16 ----------------
> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.43.0
>
Reviewed-by: Yixun Lan <dlan@xxxxxxxxxx>
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