Re: serial port 8250 messed up after coverting from little endian to big endian on kernel 2.6.31

[Shmulik Ladkani <jungoshmulik@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:40:13 -0500 myuboot@fastmail.fm wrote:
> Thanks, Florian. I found the cause of the problem. My board is 32 bit
> based, so each serial port register is 32bit even only 8 bit is used. So
> when the board is switched endianess, I need to change the address
> offset to access the same registers.
> For example, original RHR register address is 0x8001000 with little
> endian mode. With big endian, I need to access it as 0x8001003.

I assume your uart_port's iotype is defined as UPIO_MEM32.
UPIO_MEM32 makes 8250 access serial registers using readl/writel (which might
be a problem for big-endian), while UPIO_MEM makes 8250 access the registers
using readb/writeb.
Maybe you should try UPIO_MEM (assuming hardware allows byte access).

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Shmulik Ladkani         Jungo Ltd.