From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g0903kA05706 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:03:46 -0800 Received: from spinics.net (IDENT:root@vzn1-22.ce.ftel.net [206.24.95.226]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g0903gg05702 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:03:42 -0800 Received: (from ellis@localhost) by spinics.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g08N4eA29568 for linux-mips@oss.sgi.com; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 15:04:40 -0800 From: ellis@spinics.net Message-Id: <200201082304.g08N4eA29568@spinics.net> Subject: Re: Galileo 64240 To: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 15:04:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: from "Paul Kasper" at Jan 08, 2002 07:19:58 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk >>Is there any support code around for the Galileo 64240? A >>serial driver would be really nice ;) >I started an MPSC/Uart driver for the 64240/64240A chips. Didn't >get much of it working when we got fed up with all of the >Galileo errata about which registers could or could not be read >at which times and their confusion as to whether or not they >were planning to ever fix the errata. >We broke down and added a 162550 UART to the board. I really wish that option was available. ;) >The driver code was abandoned in the midst of early debugging >stages and is in a horrific state. You're welcome to a copy if >you really can't find something better. It looks like we have something that works for our in-house (non-linux) OS. I guess I'll use that code as an example and see if I can get a real driver working. -- http://www.spinics.net/linux/