[SeaBIOS] [RFC PATCH] Add support for Intel Quark UART.

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 11:40 -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 02:02:02PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > This provides basic debug output on the Quark system, assuming that
> > *something* (i.e. coreboot or UEFI) has set it up in advance for us.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at intel.com>
> > ---
> > I looked briefly at making this part of the CONFIG_DEBUG_SERIAL code,
> > and making that generic enough to handle I/O access *or* MMIO access
> > depending on what's present... but in fact that's probably overkill.
> > 
> > This isn't really limited to Quark; it would work with any 16550 device
> > wired up as MMIO32. But we can expand it as required, I think. No point
> > in starting off with the same functionality as the 5000-odd lines of the
> > Linux kernel's 8250_pci.c.
> > 
> > What do I need to do if called in 32-bit segmented mode? I'm guessing
> > that's not going to work right now...
> 
> Do you need debug output from 16bit mode or 32bit segmented mode?  The
> post and boot phases are all 32bit code so typical boot time debugging
> shouldn't be impacted.  Gerd's cbmem debugging code uses this
> approach.

I can live with that. Perhaps I should make it work in 16-bit mode but
*only* if the appropriate BAR has been put in a memory hole below 1MiB.

Now I've got the Quark running... has anyone ever looked at sdhci
support... ? :)

-- 
dwmw2

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