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

Judith Mendez jm at ti.com
Fri May 16 15:36:02 PDT 2025


Hi Greg,

On 5/14/25 2:36 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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?

This was explained in RFC [0] but the patch description can be improved
so will fix for v2.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ba88a5c0-a8b8-4e48-9752-76881fa8e94e@ti.com/

Thanks
~ Judith



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