Build issues with 2.6.0-test3

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:09:05AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 August 2003 23:54, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > It seems to be [virtually] the same as in
> > > > >   arch/ppc/8xx_io/uart.c
> > > > >   drivers/char/amiserial.c
> > > > >   drivers/char/serial_tx3912.c
> > > > >   drivers/char/sh-sci.c
> > > > >   drivers/macintosh/macserial.c
> > > >
> > > > Those are all of the obsolete, and probably broken drivers.
> > > > drivers/serial is where all of the 'new' and working serial drivers
> > > > are. If you've got some time, the 8260 serial driver really should be
> > > > re-written as a driver inside of drivers/serial. :)
> > >
> > > I'll look into this.  Can you suggest a good driver to use as guidance?
> >
> > For the conversion? Not off-hand.  But there should be some docs on how
> > to write these drivers on the ARM pages (RMK wrote this driver /
> > abstraction set), or just skim a few of the non-'core' files under
> > drivers/serial to see what's needed on the driver-specific part.
>
> I have a nearly ready to use driver for MPC860, which uses driver/serial.c.
> There is just an issue regarding startup, when the mmu is not up.
>
> Maybe it can be helpful. It has support for configurable pins and flowcontrol.
>
> If somebody is interrested, I can provide the code and some help to get it
> running.

I'd be interested in looking at it.  Do you have other patches to bring
MPC860 support for 2.6 up to date?  Or is this using the 2.4 version of
drivers/serial?

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Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/

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