From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030257AbWHQUaH (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:30:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030254AbWHQUaG (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:30:06 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([217.147.92.249]:50703 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030257AbWHQUaB (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:30:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:29:54 +0100 From: Russell King To: Vitaly Wool Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ip3106_uart oddity Message-ID: <20060817202954.GC28474@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Vitaly Wool , Russell King - ARM Linux , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060817182948.0381306c.vitalywool@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060817182948.0381306c.vitalywool@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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