Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] ns16550: support ns16550a

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 17:22 +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> 
> On 12/22/2013 10:59 AM, tsahee@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Tsahee Zidenberg <tsahee@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Ns16550a devices are Ns16550 devices with additional capabilities.
> > Decare XEN is compatible with this device, to be able to use unmodified
> > devicetrees.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tsahee Zidenberg <tsahee@xxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>

RM hat: There is basically no risk to existing systems since this just
adds a new compatible string. The benefit is that Xen will work on some
new set of hardware, if it turns out that things are buggy on that type
of hardware then we haven't lost anything vs. not trying to run on it at
all.

Applied, thanks.



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