zephyr/soc/x86
Andy Ross d2eca354e8 arch/x86: early_serial cleanup
Various cleanups to the x86 early serial driver, mostly with the goal
of simplifying its deployment during board bringup (which is really
the only reason it exists in the first place):

+ Configure it =y by default.  While there are surely constrained
  environments that will want to disable it, this is a TINY driver,
  and it serves a very important role for niche tasks.  It should be
  built always to make sure it works everywhere.

+ Decouple from devicetree as much as possible.  This code HAS to work
  during board bringup, often with configurations cribbed from other
  machines, before proper configuration gets written.  Experimentally,
  devicetree errors tend to be easy to make, and without a working
  console impossible to diagnose.  Specify the device via integer
  constants in soc.h (in the case of IOPORT access, we already had
  such a symbol) so that the path from what the developer intends to
  what the code executes is as short and obvious as possible.
  Unfortunately I'm not allowed to remove devicetree entirely here,
  but at least a developer adding a new platform will be able to
  override it in an obvious way instead of banging blindly on the
  other side of a DTS compiler.

+ Don't try to probe the PCI device by ID to "verify".  While this
  sounds like a good idea, in practice it's just an extra thing to get
  wrong.  If we bail on our early console because someone (yes, that's
  me) got the bus/device/function right but typoed the VID/DID
  numbers, we're doing no one any favors.

+ Remove the word-sized-I/O feature.  This is a x86 driver for a PCI
  device.  No known PC hardware requires that UART register access be
  done in dword units (in fact doing so would be a violation of the
  PCI specifciation as I understand it).  It looks to have been cut
  and pasted from the ns16550 driver, remove.

Signed-off-by: Andy Ross <andrew.j.ross@intel.com>
2020-07-08 12:34:09 +02:00
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