[RFC] powerpc: experimental of serial port driver

Sergei Shtylyov sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com
Sun Dec 10 03:44:06 EST 2006


Hello.

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

>>>We sill need to fixup legacy_serial to detect them on opb right ?

>>Yes, I have another patch for that. Currently, the port registers
>>as compatible="ns16750", which is different from all the others
>>in legacy_serial. Do you think it should be 
>>compatible="nc16750\0ns16550" instead, so we can use the same
>>as the others? It actually _is_ compatible to 16550 anyway.

> Both strings then.

    Then it should be something like "nc16750\0ns16550\0ns16450\08250".

> Ben.

WBR, Sergei




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