[PATCH/2.6.17-rc4 8/10] Add tsi108 8250 serial support
Zang Roy-r61911
tie-fei.zang at freescale.com
Thu Jun 15 13:27:30 EST 2006
> On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 13:39 +0800, Zang Roy-r61911 wrote:
>
> > The reason is that the serial port on tsi108/9 is a bit difference
> > with the standard 8250 serial port. the patch deal with the
> difference.
> > The prefixed ">" is caused by "Fw" the email. Sorry for that. The
> > following is the original patch.
>
> The problem I see is that the code uses a CONFIG option, to
> change the behaviour of the generic 8250 driver. What happens
> if somebody adds a PCI serial card to a tsi108 based machine?
I do not like CONFIG option:). It might be a problem in the environment you suggesting.
>
> Perhaps you should define a new value for
> uart_8250_port.port.iotype, and add code to serial_in and
> serial_out to handle the IIR register.
I will consider it.
>
> --
> Adrian Cox <adrian at humboldt.co.uk>
>
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