Help with device tree binding for SMC serial

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Jan 10 09:29:53 EST 2008


Rune Torgersen wrote:
> Ok we're now using
> serial at 11a80 {
> 	device_type = "serial";
> 	compatible = "fsl,mpc8280-smc-uart",
> 				 "fsl,cpm2-smc-uart";
> 	reg = <11a80 10 0 40>;            // <base_address length
> parameter_ram_address length>
> 	interrupts = <4 8>;                 // Interrupt from table 4.3
> of mpc8280rm, interrupt is level or edge
> 	interrupt-parent = <&PIC>;
> 	fsl,cpm-brg = <7>;
> 	fsl,cpm-command = <1d000000>;       // Page and Sub-block code
> of the CPCR
> };

Looks good.

> Right now we're trying to just get a kernel to give us some serial
> output, so we can continue the porting job.
> We're unsig a cuImage (using the pq2fads code right now).
> 
> Now our problem is that the serial port is spitting out 0x0a's as fast
> as it can.

Don't forget to exclude the SMC parameter RAM from the muram data area 
in /soc/cpm/muram/data/reg.  If you have an older device tree binding 
that has no /soc/cpm/muram node, but instead has two resources in 
/soc/cpm/reg, you need to move to head-of-tree to get this to work.

-Scott



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