[PATCH] serial: rewrite pxa2xx-uart to use 8250_core

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Thu Dec 5 21:55:41 EST 2013


On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 11:38:51AM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 03:28:37AM +0400, Sergei Ianovich wrote:
> > pxa2xx-uart was a separate uart platform driver. It was declaring
> > the same device names and numbers as 8250 driver. As a result,
> > it was impossible to use 8250 driver on PXA SoCs.
> > 
> > Upon closer examination pxa2xx-uart turned out to be a clone of
> > 8250_core driver.
> 
> I'm testing this backported to 3.5 on the OLPC XO-4 [1] [2].
> 
> As Russell says, the getty had to change, but after that the shell
> worked fine; no more or no less responsive.
> 
> What hasn't worked yet is the console; no kernel messages appear.  I
> have tried changing command line to console=ttyS0,115200.

My error.  Our kernel had CONFIG_CMDLINE set, changing that fixed it.
Console is working fine.

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James Cameron
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