heads up - changing uart -> uart_ar71xx

[Warner Losh]

On Nov 16, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> This should be cleaned up better than that, what -kind- of uart is it?
> There should be things called
> 	uart_8250 (should be able to drive everything from 8250 to 16950)
> 	uart_8530 (this is probalby the second most common uart in the world)
> 	uart_6850 (we would probably never see one of these)
> 	etc...
> 
> Please do not lock this to a specific Mips chip if at all possible

uart already services a dozen of other UARTs. It isn't tied to MIPS at all.  All Adrian seems to be doing is making what was automatic configuration a little more manual.

Warner

>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've started digging into AR933x support and I've discovered that the
>> UART is not an NS8250 style thing.
>> 
>> So I'm going to shuffle the ar71xx uart code around to require both
>> 'uart' and 'uart_ar71xx'.
>> 
>> I'll update the config files appropriately.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Adrian
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