Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757921AbaAJQ7S (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:59:18 -0500 Received: from fw-tnat.austin.arm.com ([217.140.110.23]:49995 "EHLO collaborate-mta1.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757892AbaAJQ7Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:59:16 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:58:47 +0000 From: Catalin Marinas To: Rob Herring Cc: "msalter@redhat.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Russell King , Arnd Bergmann , Will Deacon , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] arm: add early_ioremap support Message-ID: <20140110165847.GG925@arm.com> References: <1389325833-16535-1-git-send-email-msalter@redhat.com> <1389325833-16535-5-git-send-email-msalter@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 04:11:03PM +0000, Rob Herring wrote: > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Mark Salter wrote: > > This patch uses the generic early_ioremap code to implement > > early_ioremap for ARM. The ARM-specific bits come mostly from > > an earlier patch from Leif Lindholm > > here: > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/3/279 > > I think this will be useful to implement an arm64 style earlycon for > arm as the current DEBUG_LL doesn't really work with multi-platform > kernels. I started on this and quickly realized I needed the fixmap > support. It would be even better if you can make it more generic (drivers/tty/serial/) and keep DEBUG_LL as a specialised case for arch/arm (when !multi-platform). -- Catalin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/