On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 08:30:51AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 03:17 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > [...] > > > +CONFIG_SERIAL_OF_PLATFORM=y > > [...] > > > > This seems to select some glue code for 8250-like serial ports, and the > > following symbols don't depend on it. > > Ignoring the beaglebone aspect for the moment -- might support for > 8250-like serial ports via OF be a good thing for the armmp kernel to > have anyway? > > On first glance the platforms using those compatibility strings which I > recognise look mainly to be armel, but I've not dug into the ones I > don't recognise yet. The only one I know I have seen with an 8250 in it > is 64-bit ARM which isn't relevant in this config.
OMAP plans to reuse 8250 code, but it doesn't seem to be ready for 3.16 (so not relevant for jessie): http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.devicetree/70986/match=serial+8250+add+omap+glue -- Sebastian
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