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Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/4] ARM64 LPC: LPC driver implementation on Hip06
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From: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
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On 06/10/2016 01:18, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-10-04 at 13:02 +0100, John Garry wrote:
>> Right, so I think Zhichang can make the necessary generic changes to
>> 8250 OF driver to support IO port as well as MMIO-based.
>>
>> However an LPC-based earlycon driver is still required.
>>
>> A note on hip07-based D05 (for those unaware): this does not use
>> LPC-based uart. It uses PL011. The hardware guys have managed some
>> trickery where they loopback the serial line around the BMC/CPLD. But we
>> still need it for hip06 D03 and any other boards which want to use LPC
>> bus for uart.
>>
>> A question on SBSA: does it propose how to provide serial via BMC for SOL?
>
> Probably another reason to keep 8250 as a legal option ... The (very
> popular) Aspeed BMCs tend to do this via a 8250-looking virtual UART on
> LPC.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben,

I think we're talking about the same thing for our LPC-based UART.

John

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