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The "soft uart" mechanism is a workaround for a silicon bug which (as far as I know) only affects some PPC-based SOCs. The code that determines which microcode blob to request relies on some powerpc-specific bits (e.g. the mfspr(SPRN_SVR) and hence also the asm/reg.h header). This makes it a little awkward to allow this driver to be built for non-PPC based SOCs with a QE, even if they are not affected by that silicon bug and thus don't need any of the Soft UART logic. There's no way around guarding those bits with some ifdeffery, so to keep that isolated, factor out the do-we-need-soft-uart-and-if-so-handle-the-firmware to a separate function, which we can then easily stub out for non-PPC. Reviewed-by: Timur Tabi <timur@kernel.org> Acked-by: Timur Tabi <timur@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.