[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/9] Introduce driver model serial uclass

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On 13 July 2014 19:27, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> This series adds support for a serial uclass, enabling serial drivers to be
> converted to use driver model.
>
> Unfortunately this is quite a complicated process for a number of reasons:
>
> - serial is used before relocation, but driver model does not support this
> - stdio member functions are not passed a device pointer, but driver model
>     requires this (so does serial, but it uses an ugly work-around)
> - driver model requires malloc() but this is not available before
>   relocation
> - for sandbox, if something goes wrong with the console, we still need to
>   get an error message out through the fallback console
>
> So this series relies on quite a few patches to address the above, as well
> as the serial uclass and an implementation for sandbox.
>
> If you have limited time, please take a look at least at the uclass patch
> which is 'dm: Add a uclass for serial devices' (see include/serial.h).
>
> Note: this series breaks 4 exynos boards. I will figure out how to get them
> to build as part of the exynos5-dt common board work.
>
> To see the current state of driver model, look at u-boot-dm.git branch
> 'working'.
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Add exynos serial support
> - Remove RFC status
> - Rename struct device to struct udevice
> - Split out core driver model patches into a separate set

Are there any comments on this series? I'm particularly interested in
comments on include/serial.h - the uclass API for serial.

I plan to apply the uclass and sandbox support soon, with exynos
support coming later once the 'common' serial has been reviewed.

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/372891/

Regards,
Simon