MPC8245 with its internal UART

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Dec 8 03:39:02 EST 2005


On Dec 6, 2005, at 10:43 PM, Dan Malek wrote:

>
> On Dec 6, 2005, at 7:44 PM, HappyPhot wrote:
>
>> Who can tell me which flatform is similar to mine ? I've tried
>> "make sandpoint_defconfig", but seems not the right one.
>
> That's the one I would have recommended.  I don't think there
> is any Linux platform port that uses the 8245 internal DUART,
> at least not in the public source tree.  The DUART is actually
> pretty easy, just use the generic 8250 driver and point the address
> to the Embedded Utilities Block DUART.

The 2.6 kernel tree has support for the DUART on 8245 Sandpoint  
systems.  (We added it in the last few months).

- kumar



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