[U-Boot] [PATCH] ns16550: allow UART address to be set dynamically

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Dec 14 23:26:46 CET 2012


Dear Tom Rini,

In message <50CB8ED1.7020503 at ti.com> you wrote:
>
> The other part is, take a look at the Allwinner thread from a week or
> so ago.  We really need to define how we want early board specific
> data to come in because if we start saying we'll accept per-SoC
> solutions we'll be drowning in them in short time.  We want to say
> here's our preferred way to pass this information in.

ACK!

And we already have a well-defined way to do this, which is the device
tree.  So any attempts to implement something different should be
reviewed very carefully.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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