Superseded by v2.
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 5:54 PM Sam Protsenko semen.protsenko@linaro.org wrote:
- Dan Rue
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 5:49 PM Sam Protsenko semen.protsenko@linaro.org wrote:
ttyO2 console enables legacy CONFIG_SERIAL_OMAP driver in kernel. Nowadays it's preferred to use the generic CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_OMAP driver, which being enabled via ttyS2 console. Both drivers are enabled in multi_v7_defconfig and in omap2plus_defconfig, for compatibility reasons. Let's switch to ttyS2 console, to be sure that standard 8250 serial driver is used.
Similar behavior can be also achieved by enabling CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_OMAP_TTYO_FIXUP option in kernel, but it's better not to rely on that, as it can be disabled or removed after transitional period.
Right now on DRA7/AM57x platforms the 8250-omap driver is being probed first, and omap-serial driver is only probed if the first one failed. It can be seen from uart3 definition in arch/arm/boot/dts/dra7-l4.dtsi:
compatible = "ti,dra742-uart", "ti,omap4-uart";So the kernel already uses 8250 driver. This change basically allows kernel developers to throw away the omap-serial driver and associated compatibility options. Similar discussions [1,2] have started several years ago, so it should be safe to do that now.
[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6198471/ [2] http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Sitara_Linux_UART_-_Switching_to_825...
Signed-off-by: Sam Protsenko semen.protsenko@linaro.org
include/environment/ti/boot.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/environment/ti/boot.h b/include/environment/ti/boot.h index e37004af46..d69ba3a7a6 100644 --- a/include/environment/ti/boot.h +++ b/include/environment/ti/boot.h @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ #define __TI_BOOT_H
#ifndef CONSOLEDEV -#define CONSOLEDEV "ttyO2" +#define CONSOLEDEV "ttyS2" #endif
#define VBMETA_PART_SIZE (64 * 1024)
2.20.1