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From: Pete Popov <ppopov@embeddedalley.com>
To: Michael Stickel <michael@cubic.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Bitrotting serial drivers
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:19:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <423E91B3.4000302@embeddedalley.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <423E7B9D.3040908@cubic.org>


> Even if I don't make me a lot of friends, the au1x00 driver seems to be 
> a hack.

Well, it basically is.

> Most of the difference seems to be the PCI stuff, that has been removed 
> and the access method.

There were a bunch of differences including how you program the baud rate, the 
addresses of the registers, and if I remember correctly, additional/different 
registers. To cleanly get the au1x support into the 8250 driver, some additional 
abstraction was necessary and I just never had the time to do it.

Pete

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-21  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050319172101.C23907@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
     [not found] ` <20050319141351.74f6b2a5.akpm@osdl.org>
2005-03-20 22:40   ` Bitrotting serial drivers Ralf Baechle
2005-03-20 22:51     ` Pete Popov
2005-03-20 23:24       ` Russell King
2005-03-20 23:42         ` Pete Popov
2005-03-21 20:51       ` Ulrich Eckhardt
2005-03-21 20:57         ` Pete Popov
2005-03-21 22:07           ` Ulrich Eckhardt
2005-03-22  7:28             ` Michael Stickel
2005-03-22  9:58       ` Michael Stickel
2005-03-21  7:45     ` Michael Stickel
2005-03-21  9:06       ` Stanislaw Skowronek
2005-03-21  9:19       ` Pete Popov [this message]
2005-03-21 12:12         ` Michael Stickel
2005-03-21 12:38           ` Ralf Baechle
2005-03-21 21:10 Joseph Chiu
2005-03-21 21:10 ` Joseph Chiu

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