From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Donald <donald@asix.com.tw>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Questions regarding adding a patch in linux/drivers/char/8250.c
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 10:30:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120521103009.7f4be5e0@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00a301cd3719$b3faa370$1befea50$@com.tw>
On Mon, 21 May 2012 14:19:34 +0800
"Donald" <donald@asix.com.tw> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is Donald from ASIX Electronics Corp. My company has three PCI to Serial controllers, including MCS9845, MCS9835, and MCS9820.
> Currently those serial devices using these three chips can directly use the Linux kernel's serial driver in
> linux/drivers/char/8250.c. Recently we find these three chips have a hardware bug relating to parity error count function. We have a
> software workaround for this issue. Below for reference is a pseudo code for this workaround.
Actually I have a second question.
Would it not be better to set the device to 8N1 and do the parity in
software rather than lose the FIFO, especially at higher speeds ? Can you
clarify what the erratum is triggered by ?
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-21 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-21 6:19 Questions regarding adding a patch in linux/drivers/char/8250.c Donald
2012-05-21 9:28 ` Alan Cox
2012-05-29 8:37 ` Donald
2012-06-18 3:07 ` Donald
2012-06-19 9:18 ` Alan Cox
2012-06-19 12:35 ` Donald
2012-05-21 9:30 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-05-21 12:54 ` Donald
2012-05-21 15:07 ` Jason Smith
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