question about UART ST16C2552

Milliorn Gary-rxcr80 Gary.Milliorn at motorola.com
Fri Sep 19 02:23:31 EST 2003


Kumar,

  There is no DUART on the MPC8240, if 8240 is what he literally
meant.  Some boards, like Unity, used to have an external DUART
for this reason.

Gary Milliorn



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kumar Gala [mailto:kumar.gala at motorola.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:01 AM
> To: Yuxiao Xi
> Cc: linuxppc-embedded
> Subject: Re: question about UART ST16C2552
>
>
>
> For 824x the detection code for the on-chip UART does NOT currently
> detect it as a 16550A.  There is a patch that Tom Rini and I are
> working on getting accepted by the serial maintainers, that should fix
> this.
>
> However, its not clear to me from your email if you also have a
> ST16C2552 in addition to the DUART on the 8240.
>
> - kumar
>
> On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 08:37 PM, Yuxiao Xi wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,all,
> >     Does Linux support UART ST16C2552 ?
> >     There is a UART ST16C2552 on my board with CPU ppc8240.
> > While the linux system booting,sometimes function autoconfig(struct
> > serial_state * state) in ./drivers/char/serial.c detected
> ST16C2552 as
> > 16450,sometimes as 8250,can anyone tell me why?
> >
> > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Yuxiao Xi
> > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!xiyuxiao at harbournetworks.com
> > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2003-09-18
> >
>
>
>

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