16550 uart without interrupts ?

[Rabeeh Khoury]

In order to work in polling mode , you have to run a __check__ routine
that runs once, at least, in a constant period of time. The routine
checks if new data has arrived or not and accordingly operates.

I suggest that you hook such a routine to your real time clock interrupt
handler which calls function
'rs_interrupt_single' in file drivers/char/serial.c with the appropriate
parameters.

p.s. the function 'rs_interrupt_single' is suitable in case you are
using one port of the serial controller !

Another option is using the decrementer of the ppc CPU which is usually
also used by the Linux kernel. But you have to find a way how to share
the decrementer with your polling function and the kernel.


Regards,
Rabeeh


Andreas Schreckenberg wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is there anybody with a serial console uart driver for
> ppc systems without using interrupts ?
> Is is possible to use any driver in "polling mode" ?
> (drivers/char/serial.c or arch/8xx_io/uart.c)
>
> I try to bring up Linux on my custom ppc board
> (PPC750, 64M, uart 16550) and my
> (selfmade) interrupt controller will not work at this
> moment.
>
> But it would be nice to have debug messages on the
> serial console. (log_buf is okay but not really the
> thing I would like to have)
>
> Can I work with a "polling driver" -> bash input/output ?
>
> I hope that I must not understand the whole driver :-)
> (only set the uart I/O range, and set the quartz divider)
>
> bye
> Andreas
> EMail: ASchreckenberg at dspace.de
> --
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>
>
>
>


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