From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: florian@openwrt.org (Florian Fainelli) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:21:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: ep93xx: properly wait for UART FIFO to be empty Message-ID: <1836468.ZU3cPkV103@bender> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org This patch changes the busy-waiting loop around in the decompressor putc() function on the UART FIFO register. Without a proper wait, the output of the decompressor was corrupted like this: Uncompressing Linx. done, booting th enl To highlight the issue more evidently, looping 100 times instead of 1000 makes the issue appear much faster. This patch takes the approach of using an active while loop until the FIFO is empty (not FULL). This issue happened to me on Sim.One running at 200Mhz. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli --- Ryan, this is based on your ep93xx-fixes branch, thanks! arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/include/mach/uncompress.h | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/include/mach/uncompress.h b/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/include/mach/uncompress.h index 16026c2..d64274f 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/include/mach/uncompress.h +++ b/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/include/mach/uncompress.h @@ -47,13 +47,9 @@ static void __raw_writel(unsigned int value, unsigned int ptr) static inline void putc(int c) { - int i; - - for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { - /* Transmit fifo not full? */ - if (!(__raw_readb(PHYS_UART_FLAG) & UART_FLAG_TXFF)) - break; - } + /* Transmit fifo not full? */ + while (__raw_readb(PHYS_UART_FLAG) & UART_FLAG_TXFF) + ; __raw_writeb(c, PHYS_UART_DATA); } -- 1.7.10.4