[PATCH 3/7] serial: 8250: Add PRUSS UART driver

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed May 14 00:36:45 PDT 2025


On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 04:59:30PM -0500, Judith Mendez wrote:
> From: Bin Liu <b-liu at ti.com>
> 
> This adds a new serial 8250 driver that supports the UART in PRUSS or
> PRU_ICSS*.
> 
> The UART sub-module is based on the industry standard TL16C550 UART
> controller, which has 16-bytes FIFO and supports 16x and 13x over
> samplings.

If it is based on an existing controller, why do we need a new driver
for this?  Please explain in detail why this code is needed at all, and
not just a new "quirk" for the existing driver?

thanks,

greg k-h



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