[PATCH] 8250: Hypervisors always export working 16550A UARTs.

Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-28T22:18:47Z

Currently autoconf spends 25ms (on my laptop) testing if the UART
exported to it by KVM is an 8250 without FIFO and/or with strange
quirks, which it obviously isn't. Assume it is exported to us by a
hypervisor, it's a normal, working 16550A.

Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
index 00ad2637..de19924 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
@@ -1171,6 +1171,13 @@ static void autoconfig(struct uart_8250_port *up)
if (!port->iobase && !port->mapbase && !port->membase)
return;

+ /* Hypervisors always export working 16550A devices. */
+ if (cpu_has_hypervisor) {
+ up->port.type = PORT_16550A;
+ up->capabilities |= UART_CAP_FIFO;
+ return;
+ }
+
DEBUG_AUTOCONF("ttyS%d: autoconf (0x%04lx, 0x%p): ",
serial_index(port), port->iobase, port->membase);

--
2.7.4