The UART controller used in the A10/A13 is the Synopsys DesignWare 8250.
The wrong use of a regular 8250 driver may lead to a oops during kernel
boot with "irq 17: nobody cared", because the apb UART as an extra
interrupt that gets raised when writing to the LCR when busy.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.rip...@free-electrons.com>
---
 arch/arm/boot/dts/sunxi.dtsi |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sunxi.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sunxi.dtsi
index 8bbc2bf..8b36abe 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sunxi.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sunxi.dtsi
@@ -60,19 +60,21 @@
                };
 
                uart0: uart@01c28000 {
-                       compatible = "ns8250";
+                       compatible = "snps,dw-apb-uart";
                        reg = <0x01c28000 0x400>;
                        interrupts = <1>;
                        reg-shift = <2>;
+                       reg-io-width = <4>;
                        clock-frequency = <24000000>;
                        status = "disabled";
                };
 
                uart1: uart@01c28400 {
-                       compatible = "ns8250";
+                       compatible = "snps,dw-apb-uart";
                        reg = <0x01c28400 0x400>;
                        interrupts = <2>;
                        reg-shift = <2>;
+                       reg-io-width = <4>;
                        clock-frequency = <24000000>;
                        status = "disabled";
                };
-- 
1.7.10.4

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