From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:20:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp002.bizmail.yahoo.com ([IPv6:::ffff:216.136.172.126]:19097 "HELO smtp002.bizmail.yahoo.com") by linux-mips.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:19:50 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.102?) (ppopov@embeddedalley.com@63.194.214.47 with plain) by smtp002.bizmail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Mar 2005 09:19:47 -0000 Message-ID: <423E91B3.4000302@embeddedalley.com> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:19:47 -0800 From: Pete Popov Reply-To: ppopov@embeddedalley.com Organization: Embedded Alley Solutions, Inc User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Stickel CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Bitrotting serial drivers References: <20050319172101.C23907@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050319141351.74f6b2a5.akpm@osdl.org> <20050320224028.GB6727@linux-mips.org> <423E7B9D.3040908@cubic.org> In-Reply-To: <423E7B9D.3040908@cubic.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 7482 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ppopov@embeddedalley.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips > 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