On 3 Dec 2015 22:32, "Kevin Hilman" <khilman@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Grant Likely <glikely@secretlab.ca> writes:
>
> > On 3 Dec 2015 07:46, "Victor Chong" <victor.chong@linaro.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thursday, December 3, 2015, Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> aaaaah! I wasn't expecting partial output on UART0, then on UART3.
> >>
> >>
> >> Yea.. the partial output can usually be ignored for the most part unless
> > you're working on those components directly.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> After setting the right jumper settings on the UART board, I'm now
> >>> seeing the BL1 on UART0 and the rest on UART3 (a.k.a. UART1 on the UART
> >>> board... which is also confusing.)
> >
> > It's more confusing than that. The UART board gives you UART2 & UART3.
> > UART0 isn't available to it.
>
> I suspect it's likely that hikey will not be the only one to have SoC
> UART numbering different that the UART board numbering.  Maybe the UART
> board options should have different names, like UART_A and UART_B ?

FWIW, I've been referring to them as LS-UART0 and LS-UART1. I agree that we should have a consistent naming convention. Same goes for the i2c buses.

g.

>
> Kevin