[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/4] ns16550: Add function to drain serial output

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Simon Glass,

In message <CAPnjgZ3wprPDNUbe0fGbsequXJgQ_bwzkDEu6FeuR-8GG1ndQQ at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > Also I do not understand why it would be needed at all. =A0We did not
> > have such a requirement for any system before, so I feel you must be
> > doing something wrong, or at least very exotic.
> 
> I put a fully explanation in the previous patch. Let me just add here

Explanations in some other patch are not available when someone reads
the commit message ...

> that I see a 100ms delay in the reset code to allow serial output to
> flush, so there is at least in practice a need for this sort of thing.

Note that such a delay is hardware independent.  You implement a
special solution that works only for a minority of boards.

> For most archs the extra code will be removed by the linker.

Ok, granted.

> You may also recall a discussion about a platform where the SPI flash
> and console uart were muxed, and we had to flush the console uart
> before switching to SPI. I feel that draining the FIFO could/should be
> a useful function.

You quote an example of highly specific hardware, which I would not
hesitate to call a broken design.  I do not really fancy adding code
to common files for such exceptional situations.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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