[PATCH v2 1/2] serial: ns16550: Revert "Move PCI access from ofdata_to_platdata() to probe()"

[Ang, Chee Hong]

> On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 12:55:14PM +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
> > Hi Simon, Andy,
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 1:55 AM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Andy,
> > >
> > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 11:39, Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:56:26AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > > > Hi Andy,
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 08:45, Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 5:32 PM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 9:58 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > > > > > > <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > The commit breaks serial console on the Intel Edison.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > This reverts commit 720f9e1fdb0c92d3fd16e1bfc25bcbd35612675c.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko
> > > > > > > > <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
> > > > > > > > ---
> > > > > > > >  drivers/serial/ns16550.c | 40
> > > > > > > > ++++++++++++----------------------------
> > > > > > > >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Could you please spend some time to investigate why this breaks Intel
> Edison?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Reverting this patch would mean we break other boards too as
> > > > > > > Wolfgang's patch wanted to fix the breakage in the first
> > > > > > > place. Much appreciated!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I guess I'm wrong person here. The DM code is a complete black box to
> me.
> > > > > > Nevertheless, I may test any provided fix / debug / etc patch by request.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > And I think it's fair to investigate by the one who made a
> > > > > > regression in the first place.
> > > > >
> > > > > Given that we have conflicting breakages, we need to debug Edison.
> > > >
> > > > I would glad to test any suggested change or debug patch!
> > > >
> > > > > Does it enable the debug UART?
> > > >
> > > > If I am not mistaken, it does not.
> > >
> > > Looks like you are right. If you know the address you could do that
> > > - see minnowmax for an example.
> >
> > Please suggest what's the best approach to proceed.
> 
> Adding SoCFPGA folks to this thread as the first commit (82de42fa1468) is also
> breaking platforms there and then their fix for that problem is also causing
> problems, if I follow right.
> 
> --
> Tom

Yes. This commit (82de42fa1468) breaks our A10 platform.
I did submit similar patch to move some init code from ofdata_to_platdata() to probe() for our clock driver as well.
Check out the thread here:
https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2020-April/405252.html