[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 2/6] serial: add UniPhier serial driver

[Simon Glass]

Hi Masahiro,

On 20 September 2014 01:18, Masahiro YAMADA <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
>
> 2014-09-20 1:30 GMT+09:00 Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
>>>
>>> It looks like CONFIG_DM_SERIAL depends on CONFIG_OF_CONTROL.
>>>
>>>
>>> UniPhier SoCs do not support device tree control.
>>> Is the driver model serial still available?
>>> What will happen if gd->fdt_blob is not set?
>>>
>>
>> Please this patch.
>>
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/390433/
>>
>> I haven't got to a pull request yet for DM, but will do this in the next
>> few days.
>>
>
>
> Can I postpone the driver-model conversion in the next phase?
>
> My first priority is to include the core support of Panasonic SoCs in
> the 2014.10 release.
>
> We do not have a month before that.
> I do not want to be aggressive now.
>
> First, I want the current well-tested code to be upstreamed and see
> where I stand.
> And then I can move forward to the next development.
>
> (Once I have a stable code in the mainline,
> I can consult "git-bisect" whenever something is broken in the future
> development.)

That seems fine to me. It is good to do things in stages.

Regards,
Simon