From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ip3106_uart oddity
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:29:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060817202954.GC28474@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060817182948.0381306c.vitalywool@gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 06:29:48PM +0400, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> it looks like drivers/serial/ip3106_uart.c was dropped from the
> mainline at some point I couldn't identify. Can you please confirm
> that?
I am not aware of its addition nor removal of this file. There was
au1x00_uart.c at one time.
> I'd like to take the burden of restoring the UART functionality for
> PNX8550 boards in the mainline. This very UART HW is very weird and
> doesn't fit well into 8250 model, even with fixups like those that
> were introduced for Alchemy. It also differs from the IP_3106-based
> UARTs used on Philips ARM targets in registers layout so I'm not
> sure it's correct to call it ip3106_uart.
> So, given the above, does it make sense to try make it fir into
> standard 8250 driver model or restore/rework the custom driver?
No real clue. Is it similar to any other drivers?
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-17 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-17 14:29 ip3106_uart oddity Vitaly Wool
2006-08-17 20:29 ` Russell King [this message]
2006-08-18 7:46 ` Jean-Paul Saman
2006-08-18 8:27 ` Russell King
2006-08-18 11:23 ` Vitaly Wool
2006-08-18 12:56 ` Russell King
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