[PATCH v5 2/2] drivers: serial: probe all uart devices
Sean Anderson
seanga2 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 16:22:04 CET 2020
On 12/9/20 12:12 AM, Vabhav Sharma wrote:
> From: Vabhav Sharma <vabhav.sharma at nxp.com>
>
> U-Boot DM model probe only single device at a time
> which is enabled and configured using device tree
> or platform data method.
>
> PL011 UART IP is SBSA compliant and firmware does the
> serial port set-up, initialization and let the kernel use
> UART port for sending and receiving characters.
>
> Normally software talk to one serial port time but some
> LayerScape platform require all the UART devices enabled
> in Linux for various use case.
>
> Adding support to probe all enabled serial devices like SBSA
> compliant PL011 UART ports probe and initialization by firmware.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vabhav Sharma <vabhav.sharma at nxp.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> --
> v5:
> Incorporated review comments from Sean Anderson
> - Modified the macro description
> - Added error check
>
> v3:
> Incorporated Simon and Stephan review comment
> - Define generic function uclass_probe_all(enum uclass_id)
> in drivers/core/uclass.c
> - Added the function in caller of serial_find_console_or_panic()
> - Removed repeated sequence with generic function call uclass_probe_all()
> - Dependent on other patch [PATCH] dm: core: add function uclass_probe_all()
> to probe all devices
>
> v2:
> Incorporated Stefan review comment, Update #ifdef with macro
> if (IS_ENABLED)..
> ---
> drivers/serial/Kconfig | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c | 9 +++++++++
> 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/serial/Kconfig
> index b4805a2..1294943 100644
> --- a/drivers/serial/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/serial/Kconfig
> @@ -134,6 +134,22 @@ config SERIAL_SEARCH_ALL
>
> If unsure, say N.
>
> +config SERIAL_PROBE_ALL
> + bool "Probe all available serial devices"
> + depends on DM_SERIAL
> + default n
> + help
> + The serial subsystem only probes for a single serial device,
> + but does not probe for other remaining serial devices.
> + With this option set, we make probing and searching for
> + all available devices optional.
> + Normally, U-Boot talks to one serial port at a time, but SBSA
> + compliant UART devices like PL011 require initialization
> + by firmware and to let the kernel use serial port for sending
Nit: "and" or "to" but not both
> + and receiving the characters.
> +
> + If unsure, say N.
> +
> config SPL_DM_SERIAL
> bool "Enable Driver Model for serial drivers in SPL"
> depends on DM_SERIAL && SPL_DM
> diff --git a/drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c b/drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c
> index f3c25d4..48e0080 100644
> --- a/drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c
> +++ b/drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c
> @@ -172,6 +172,15 @@ int serial_init(void)
> /* Called after relocation */
> int serial_initialize(void)
> {
> + /* Scanning uclass to probe devices */
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SERIAL_PROBE_ALL)) {
> + int ret;
> +
> + ret = uclass_probe_all(UCLASS_SERIAL);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> + }
> +
> return serial_init();
> }
>
Reviewed-by: Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com>
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