Re: should the kernel be initializing the uarts on the Au1550?

[Pete Popov <ppopov@embeddedalley.com>]

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 15:58 -0400, Clem Taylor wrote:
> It seems that the kernel (2.6.10) isn't properly initializing the
> Au1550 serial ports. All three of the serial ports work, just not at
> the same time. Linux seems to need yamon to configure the serial port
> first. Out of the box yamon uses UART0 & UART3 and ttyS0 & ttyS2
> (UART3, the 1550 doesn't have a UART2) work in linux, but ttyS1
> doesn't. If I switch yamon to use UART1 & UART3, then ttyS0 doesn't
> seem to work in linux. The serial port that isn't configured by yamon
> will hang in an ioctl() on calling tcsetattr().
> 
> Before I just cheat and add a third serial port to yamon, should the
> kernel be initializing the UARTs or does it really expect the yamon to
> initialize them first? Is anyone using all 3 serial ports on an
> Au1550?

Yes, it should. And we should really rewrite the serial driver from
scratch. 

Pete