[Buildroot] microcom broken with latest uclibc snapshot.

[Bernhard Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:06:16AM +0100, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
>Bernhard Fischer wrote:
>>On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:32:37AM +0100, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
>>>When using the latest uClibc snapshot to build the toolchain,
>>>It looks like the high speeds are not acceptable (> 1151200)
>>>and the generated <staging_dir>/arm-linux/sys-include/bits/termios.h
>>>has higher speeds commented away.
>>>
>>>#if 0 /* limited on uClibc, keep in sync w/ cfsetspeed.c */
>>>#define B230400 0010003
>>>...
>>>#endif
>>>
>>>This is not a good idea, if the MCU can handle higher speed!
>>>
>>>It also breaks microcom-1.02.
>>
>>I'm pretty sure that i fixed microcom, please update and confirm
>>since i only compile tested it..
>
>My Buildroot copy is from 2007-01-16.

today is something like 2007-01-23 (for me) ;)

$ svn log -r "{2007-01-16}:HEAD" | grep -e ^r[[:digit:]] | wc -l
78

We had 78 patches going in since then.

>
>But why limit the UART speed?
>An AT91RM9200 can do 460kBAUD.
>Have several customer which would like to avoid
>such artificial limitation.
>Isn't it better to make the max speed a configuration item?

I don't see a reason why it shouldn't be configurable, agree.
Perhaps send a proposed patch along the rational to the uClibc list..