[U-Boot] [PATCH] serial: add environment control for SERIAL_MULTI
Allen Martin
amartin at nvidia.com
Fri Oct 26 00:53:34 CEST 2012
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 03:47:09PM -0700, Joe Hershberger wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> > On 10/25/2012 04:36 PM, Joe Hershberger wrote:
> >> Hi Allen,
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Allen Martin <amartin at nvidia.com> wrote:
> >>> Add a new special environment variable "serial" that allows selection
> >>> of serial device when CONFIG_SERIAL_MULTI is defined. This replaces
> >>> the existing calls to serial_assign() from cmd_nvedit.c and iomux.c
> >>> that were not doing anything.
> > ...
> >> Changes to this directly conflict with the environment callback series
> >> I sent out RFC (soon be be a real series). Can we hold off on this
> >> until that happens?
> >
> > The problem here is that serial output on Tegra simply doesn't work
> > (after some point in boot?) without this patch. It seems better to get
> > everything working before adding new features doesn't it? Otherwise, if
> > the environment callback stuff (or any other change right now) breaks
> > something Tegra-specific, there would be no way to identify which change
> > broke it.
>
> Fair enough. However I don't think this patch is the right way to fix it.
>
Ok, would removing the existing calls to serial_assign() from iomux.c
and cmd_nvedit.c be an ok first step? They don't appear to do
anything useful right now and that would fix tegra and raspberry pi.
-Allen
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