UART #1 access on Sequoia board

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon May 23 22:40:35 EST 2011


On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:34:26AM +0500, Muhammad Waseem wrote:
>Hello,
>   I am working on PPC440EPx (Sequoia) to access its UART # 1 port for data
>transfer, while UART # 0 is connected to remote terminal access on host.
>However there is no module/driver listed for UART # 1 using 'lsmod'. The
>kernel version is 2.6.23. How can I access the UART # 1 in user space and/or
>kernel space? Do I need to develop own BSP for this? please help.

The driver is normally built into the kernel.  If the board DTS file has
both UARTs listed, and you have /dev/ttyS1 on your rootfs you should be
able to use it.  However, Sequoia wasn't added until 2.6.24, so I'm not
really sure what kernel flavor you are using.

josh


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