[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Added support for multiple serial for MPC8XX

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Jun 6 15:55:52 CEST 2007


In message <200706061503.02268.sbabic at denx.de> you wrote:
>
> I have also noted that CONFIG_SERIAL_MULTI is always on for the mpc8xx (set 
> implicitely by include/common.h and not by the board config file), even if 
> there was no full support to have multiple serial interfaces. 
> I think this gave us the nice feature to have in a easy way one SMC and one 
> SCC and to switch between them (but not two SMCs or multiple SCCs), but
> now with full support for multiple interfaces I think this behavior is wrong 
> and I removed it (it breaks all mpc8xx boards requiring to configure the 
> default console). Multiple interfaces must be enabled setting explicitely  
> CONFIG_SERIAL_MULTI in their config file. And at the moment, there is no 
> board where more that one CONFIG_8xx_CONS_XXX is set.

You probably have broken the lwmon board, where a second serial port
may be used for a modem remote control interface.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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