[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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