Porting MIPS IRQ handler to ARM

Mason slash.tmp at free.fr
Tue Sep 1 12:01:16 PDT 2015


On 01/09/2015 20:07, Florian Fainelli wrote:

> On 01/09/15 10:57, Mason wrote:
> 
>> By the way, it seems the generic UART driver does not use interrupts,
>> which would explain why the console works despite my busted device tree.
>> Does that mean that the driver polls? (I'll take a closer look tomorrow.)
> 
> Kernel console is buffer and polled, user-space (tty) console uses
> interrupts.

Thanks for clearing that up.




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