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From: Alexey Brodkin <alexey.brodkin@synopsys.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 08:35:58 +0000
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v1 3/4] serial: add an of-platdata driver for
 "snps, dw-apb-uart"
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Hi Simon,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Goldschmidt [mailto:simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 12:14 AM
> To: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> Cc: Simon Goldschmidt <simon.k.r.goldschmidt@gmail.com>; Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@st.com>;
> Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>; Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>; Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@ti.com>;
> Alexey Brodkin <alexey.brodkin@synopsys.com>; Patrick Delaunay <patrick.delaunay@st.com>; Marek Vasut
> <marek.vasut@gmail.com>; u-boot at lists.denx.de; Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>; Ryder Lee
> <ryder.lee@mediatek.com>; Vikas Manocha <vikas.manocha@st.com>; Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>; Weijie
> Gao <weijie.gao@mediatek.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v1 3/4] serial: add an of-platdata driver for "snps,dw-apb-uart"
> 
> Add a driver for the "snps,dw-apb-uart" used in socfpga and others.
> 
> This driver is required to get OF_PLATDATA to work for socfpga.
> It uses the ns16550 driver, converting the platdata from of-platdata
> go the ns16550 format.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Goldschmidt <simon.k.r.goldschmidt@gmail.com>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/serial/Kconfig         | 10 ++++++++
>  drivers/serial/Makefile        |  1 +
>  drivers/serial/serial_dw_apb.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 53 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/serial/serial_dw_apb.c
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/serial/Kconfig
> index b7ff2960ab..10addd3309 100644
> --- a/drivers/serial/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/serial/Kconfig
> @@ -511,6 +511,16 @@ config BCM283X_PL011_SERIAL
>  	  that supports automatic disable, so that it only gets used when
>  	  the UART is actually muxed.
> 
> +config DESIGNWARE_SERIAL
> +	bool "DesignWare UART support"
> +	depends on DM_SERIAL && SPL_OF_PLATDATA

Might be a bit naïve question but why depend on SPL_OF_PLATDATA only?
What about CONFIG_OF_EMBED?

I'd happily switch my ARC boards on this driver and get rid of all
CONFIG_SYS_NS16550_xxx nonsense in include/configs/myboardname.h

-Alexey