[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 03/13] ns16550: add generic binding to unify the drivers

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Thu Nov 19 21:34:25 CET 2015


On 19 November 2015 at 06:48, Thomas Chou <thomas at wytron.com.tw> wrote:
> Add generic binding to unify ns16550 drivers. There are
> several drivers using almost the same code, such as serial_dw,
> serial_keystone, serial_omap, serial_ppc, serial_rockchip,
> serial_tegra.c, and serial_x86. But each is platform specific.
>
> The key difference between these drivers is the way to get
> input clock frequency. With this unified approach, fixed clock
> frequency should be extracted from "clock-frequency" property of
> device tree blob. If this property is not available, the macro
> CONFIG_SYS_NS16550_CLK will be used. It can be a constant or a
> function to get clock, eg, get_serial_clock().
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Chou <thomas at wytron.com.tw>
> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
> ---
>  drivers/serial/Kconfig   | 11 +++++++++++
>  drivers/serial/ns16550.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 55 insertions(+)

Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>


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