[PATCH] powerpc: serial port discovery

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri Nov 25 04:08:56 EST 2005


On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 15:49 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> This moves the discovery of legacy serial ports to a separate file,
> makes it common to ppc32 and ppc64, and reworks it to use the new OF
> address translators to get to the ports early. This new version can also
> detect some PCI serial cards using legacy chips and will probably match
> those discovered port with the default console choice.

This makes it deal with the fact that the Pegasos firmware reports that
its clock frequency is zero...

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c
index 28ad50e..7a685ca 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c
@@ -43,7 +43,10 @@ static int __init add_legacy_port(struct
 
 	/* get clock freq. if present */
 	clk = (u32 *)get_property(np, "clock-frequency", NULL);
-	clock = clk ? *clk : BASE_BAUD * 16;
+	if (clk && *clk)
+		clock = *clk;
+	else
+		clock = BASE_BAUD * 16;
 
 	/* get default speed if present */
 	spd = (u32 *)get_property(np, "current-speed", NULL);

-- 
dwmw2





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