FSL serial 166550 errata broken?
    York Sun 
    york.sun at nxp.com
       
    Tue Sep 26 03:26:17 AEST 2017
    
    
  
On 09/25/2017 09:55 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> We got some "broken" boards(mpx8321) where UART RX is held low(BREAK)
> There we get a few:
>    serial8250: too much work for irq18
> and the board freezes.
> 
> Looking inte to driver/CPU there is an errtum(A-004737) w.r.t BREAK handling
> and I can see we are hitting the irq function fsl8250_handle_irq() added
> in commit: 9deaa53ac7fa373623123aa4f18828dd62292b1a
>   "serial: add irq handler for Freescale 16550 errata."
> For all I can tell this workaround is broken and I cannot figure out why.
> Any pointers?
> 
Jocke,
Did you mean MPC8321?
I personally don't have experience debugging this erratum. Have you 
tried to contact the patch author Paul Gortmaker to see how he managed 
to get it work?
York
    
    
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