Thanks Robert, for taking your time to enlight a newbie. The fog is slowly lifting.... Regards Terje
On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 6:01:52 PM UTC+1, RobertCNelson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Terje Froysa <terje....@sintef.no > <javascript:>> wrote: > > Robert, > > just for my curiosity and pease of mind: > > > > If the 8250 have been "no mainline" for several years and there are no > > dtbo's to enable it. > > Why is the ttySx still there and the 8250 by default enabled in the > -bone67 > > ? > > The history goes like this.. > > Back in the "board" era, omap used the 8250 driver, then "new" > non-generic features where added enabling omap features, thus making > the "omap-serial" driver. Then came device tree's.. First the > omap-serial driver got it's dts bindings and all omap devices used > them. In the background, 8250 got some more generic enhancements and > generic dts bindings... Fast forward the 8250 now has even shinny-er > better features then the lagging omap-serial driver.. Thus it was > decided to move back, in a release or two.. > > That ^ may be childlish, but it's the condensed version of pages and > pages of discussions on linux-omap.... > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > http://www.rcn-ee.com/ > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
