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

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

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 04:45:06PM +0100, Matteo Croce wrote:
> Il Saturday 15 March 2008 11:40:09 Thomas Bogendoerfer ha scritto:
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 04:46:09PM +0100, Matteo Croce wrote:
> > > This is a bit better
> > 
> > is it possible to try without the serial changes first ?
> > 
> > Use 
> > 
> >        uart_port[0].type = PORT_16550A;
> > 
> > in arch/mips/ar7/platform.c.
> > 
> > Does it work ?
> > 
> 
> Tried I get teh usual broken serial output:

I just checked the latest AR7/UR8 source, I have, and they don't need
special hacks. This is a 2.6.10 based tree. At that time there was
no serial8250_console_putchar(), console output was done via
serial8250_console_write() without any helper. Before writing to 
the UART_TX, wait_for_xmitr() is called. And this wait_for_xmitr() does
check for BOTH_EMPTY.

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
would need that and this would fix the AR7 case without any
special handling.

Thomas.

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