On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 08:31:11AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 01:30 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > > We could probably remove all the rest of the crap from asm/serial.h and
> > > let platforms register their own serial8250 platform devices...
>
> > Hmm, I wondering if we can provide some standard way of handling this
> > for the embedded platforms as well. It would be nice to drop the old
> > style of initialization completely and move to using a platform
> > device always.
>
> Yes, that's precisely what I meant. Just remove it from the list in
> serial.h and as Ben says, instantiating a platform device is easy.
>
> static struct plat_serial8250_port my_serial_ports[] = {
> {
> .uartclk = 115200*16,
> .iobase = 0x2f8,
> .irq = 3,
> .flags = ASYNC_BOOT_AUTOCONF;
> },
> };
So long as you convert arch/ppc/boot/ to this as well, why not (or at
least being able to grab the infos from these structs somehow).
Once everyone is on a flat tree, I don't object to killing all of the
old-style uart definitions steaming out of <asm-ppc/serial.h>.
--
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
