[PATCH v7] 8250-core based serial driver for OMAP + DMA

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy at linutronix.de
Sun Aug 17 13:35:12 PDT 2014


* Tony Lindgren | 2014-08-15 13:28:27 [-0700]:

>> It configured the trigger levels to 1 for RX and 16 for TX.
>
>Hmm that weird RX trigger level is a workaround for lost characters.
>
>See commit 0ba5f66836 (tty: serial: OMAP: use a 1-byte RX FIFO
>threshold in PIO mode :)
>
>There's paste test in that commit, I wonder if the 8250 drivers
>can deal with it any better?

I recall that I used it as a console and didn't see any missing chars.
I will try test but I am traveling this week…

>Regards,
>
>Tony

Sebastian



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