[PATCH v1] vexpress_ca9x4: Enable DM_SERIAL

[Ole Orhagen]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 2:31 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 12:54 PM Kristian Amlie
> <kristian.amlie at northern.tech> wrote:
> > On 29/01/2024 12:41, Ole Orhagen wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 8:57 PM Linus Walleij <
> linus.walleij at linaro.org
> > > <mailto:linus.walleij at linaro.org>> wrote:
>
> > >     Are you using the actual hardware, or QEMU?
> > >
> > >
> > > I only have QEMU available, unfortunately.
> >
> > Just providing some context, since I'm listed as maintainer: This board
> > was going to be removed some time ago, but was resurrected specifically
> > to work with QEMU. The "virt" board, at least at that time, did not
> > support some key ARM features that we need in our testing, such as SD
> > cards and Flash. Hence we opted to keep this board around. So
> > compatibility with hardware is not important to us at least, unless
> > someone else is requesting it.
>
> I actually have this hardware.
>
> Last time I tried to bring it up it had severe problems with caches,
> especially following the meltdown/spectre workarounds that start
> to really stress the cache, and probably the caches simply have to
> be disabled to make it work.
>
> But I will try to dust it off and test it again.
>

Did you get any results from the tests?


>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
>


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