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

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Mon Dec 17 22:09:15 CET 2012


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On 12/14/12 17:22, Simon Glass wrote:

[snip]
> Perhaps I can make the point another way. Assuming that the SOC in 
> question is ARM-based and has Linux support it either supports FDT
> now or presumably will fairly soon. We found that some of the
> things we want to know about at the low level are hardware
> properties that are already sit in a node in the FDT. For example
> the memory controller may have information about the memory type
> attached to it.
> 
> Given this, my suggestion is that this hardware information be kept
> in one place (FDT) where possible, even if it unfortunately
> temporarily needs to be translated into some simpler format as part
> of the SPL build for efficiency reasons.

Exactly.  The fewer places we have to write down the details the better.

- -- 
Tom
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