[RFC] uartlite driver MicroBlaze compatability

[David H. Lynch Jr.]

John Williams wrote:
>
> I think that's Grant's approach of using in/out_be32, and the real base 
> address (ie not +3) is the only logically correct solution.
>   
    Trying to track how every permutation maps in every possible
scenario is more than my brain can handle.
    What I do know is that throwing an arbitrary +3 offset in is
incredibly confusing.
   
    While I pointed out that the Xilinx docs sugguest  implimentations
with regshifts of 0,1 &2 - and I beleive
    I have seen xilinx example code that sugest they may have somehow
implimented UartLite on occasion
    with less than 32bit registers. The stock GreenHills Integrity
default UartLite driver presumes a regshift of 0.
     But I have never seen an 8 or 16 bit Uartlite.
    However before either my driver or Peters showed up there was one
posted to this list that used dcr.
   
    My suggestion would be to handle "port IO" inside
serial_in()serial_out() functions like the 8250 driver (and about 1/3 of
the
    other serial drivers) do.
    While in a perfect world we should be able to compile the UartLite
driver without change for an x86
    if somehow that can be created, atleast with all the io moved to two
functions, adjusting for different regshifts,
    endians, .... requires a very limited number of localized changes.
  
    I would be happy to submit a patch to do that
    but I can not test it because I can not get Peter's driver to work
with my hardware.
   
   

   
   




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