Status of uart driver on mpc8xx in 2.6

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Thu Sep 30 12:06:36 EST 2004


On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Robin Gilks wrote:

> Greetings
>
> Could anyone point me to a uart driver for mpc8xx as the one in 2.6.8.1 
> obviously has not been hacked from the 2.4 variant since it still contains 
> references to DECLARE_TASK_QUEUE and other things that have changed.
>
> I'm sure there is a ppc 'special' tree that has all the necessary fixes but 
> with this list disappearing for a while I've rather lost track of what is 
> where!!

as i understand it, the source file arch/ppc/8xx_io/uart.c is no 
longer used.  you'll find the uart stuff in drivers/serial/cpm_uart, i 
think.  at least, that's where i'm messing with the code.

rday



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