On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Terje Froysa <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert, > just for my curiosity and pease of mind: > > If the 8250 have been "no mainline" for several years and there are no > dtbo's to enable it. > Why is the ttySx still there and the 8250 by default enabled in the -bone67 > ?
The history goes like this.. Back in the "board" era, omap used the 8250 driver, then "new" non-generic features where added enabling omap features, thus making the "omap-serial" driver. Then came device tree's.. First the omap-serial driver got it's dts bindings and all omap devices used them. In the background, 8250 got some more generic enhancements and generic dts bindings... Fast forward the 8250 now has even shinny-er better features then the lagging omap-serial driver.. Thus it was decided to move back, in a release or two.. That ^ may be childlish, but it's the condensed version of pages and pages of discussions on linux-omap.... Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
