Re: [PATCH][MIPS][5/6]: AR7: serial hack

[tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer)]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 02:01:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Is there a good reason, why we don't check for BOTH_EMPTY in
> > serial8250_console_putchar() ? To match the 2.6.10 behaviour we
> 
> A very good one - we have at least 1 byte of FIFO and the serial-ethernet
> magic console devices also use that fifo emptying entirely to deduce when
> to send a new packet.

ok, now I understand.

> > would need that and this would fix the AR7 case without any
> > special handling.
> 
> If the AR7 is an 8250 why does it need special handling? and indeed why
> does serial work on it except for console - or does that fail too.

well TI calls it a 16550A and I still wonder about the reported
problems. Looks like I need to dig a little bit deeper...

Thomas.

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