[PATCH] serial: rewrite pxa2xx-uart to use 8250_core
Sergei Ianovich
ynvich at gmail.com
Fri Dec 6 04:16:52 EST 2013
On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 13:42 +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 03:28:37AM +0400, Sergei Ianovich wrote:
> > +/* Uart divisor latch write */
> > +static void serial_pxa_dl_write(struct uart_8250_port *up, int value)
> > +{
> > + serial_out(up, UART_DLL, value & 0xff);
> > + serial_out(up, UART_DLM, value >> 8 & 0xff);
> > +}
>
> This is a change. drivers/tty/serial/pxa.c did read back UART_DLL as
> an errata work around:
>
> > - /*
> > - * work around Errata #75 according to Intel(R) PXA27x Processor Family
> > - * Specification Update (Nov 2005)
> > - */
> > - dll = serial_in(up, UART_DLL);
> > - WARN_ON(dll != (quot & 0xff));
>
> If this is no longer needed, serial_pxa_dl_write can be removed
> because it is same as default_serial_dl_write.
Thanks for spotting this. I prepared infrastructure, but the tests never
failed so I never returned here. I've filed v2 with correct dl_write.
> I did not check the other errata work arounds.
I've intentionally dropped workaround for E20 from old pxa.c
receive_chars(). 8250_core reads FIFO immediately after it checks DR bit
in LSR, so that issue never happens. New version states this in commit
message.
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