[PATCH 1/2 v2] serial/aspeed-vuart: Only disable host tx discard when serial port is in use
Jeremy Kerr
jk at ozlabs.org
Fri Feb 12 15:44:04 AEDT 2016
Hi Stewart,
>> OpenPOWER firmware doesn't like it when the host-side of the VUART's
>> FIFO is not drained. This change only disables host TX discard mode when
>> the port has been opened.
>
> Do we have what's arguably a bug somewhere?
I'm not 100% sure that it's a bug; it's fairly reasonable to expect that
a UART's TX FIFO will be drained. That expectation is present in a lot
of different UART implementations (including skiboot & Linux).
Cheers,
Jeremy
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