[PATCH v2] serial: rewrite pxa2xx-uart to use 8250_core

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Fri Dec 6 04:28:22 EST 2013


On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 01:09:31PM +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.
> 
> Workaround for Erratum #19 according to Marvel(R) PXA270M Processor
> Specification Update (April 19, 2010) is dropped. 8250_core reads
> from FIFO immediately after checking DR bit in LSR.

Reviewed-by: James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>

Thanks.

(for my notes ... V1 has passed 4.5 hours in OLPC's RUNIN test.)

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James Cameron
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