[PATCH] tty: serial: samsung: Fix S5L on Apple A18 Pro

Yureka Lilian yureka at cyberchaos.dev
Fri Sep 4 02:06:52 PDT 2026


The UCON BIT(10) is set on boot on the S5L serials on Apple Silicon Macs
of all generations and old iPhones [1]. It's unknown what it does
exactly, but on the MacBook Neo (A18 Pro / T8140 SoC) clearing this bit
breaks the uart and leads to garbled data in both directions.
Add it to the APPLE_S5L_UCON_MASK to prevent it being cleared.

Link[1]: https://oftc.catirclogs.org/asahi-dev/2026-07-24#35537011
Signed-off-by: Yureka Lilian <yureka at cyberchaos.dev>
---
 include/linux/serial_s3c.h | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/serial_s3c.h b/include/linux/serial_s3c.h
index f54cb6e23f85..1732bc9240ff 100644
--- a/include/linux/serial_s3c.h
+++ b/include/linux/serial_s3c.h
@@ -247,10 +247,12 @@
 				 S5PV210_UFCON_RXTRIG4)
 
 #define APPLE_S5L_UCON_RXTO_ENA			9
+#define APPLE_S5L_UCON_UNK			10
 #define APPLE_S5L_UCON_RXTO_LEGACY_ENA		11
 #define APPLE_S5L_UCON_RXTHRESH_ENA		12
 #define APPLE_S5L_UCON_TXTHRESH_ENA		13
 #define APPLE_S5L_UCON_RXTO_ENA_MSK		BIT(APPLE_S5L_UCON_RXTO_ENA)
+#define APPLE_S5L_UCON_UNK_MSK			BIT(APPLE_S5L_UCON_UNK)
 #define APPLE_S5L_UCON_RXTO_LEGACY_ENA_MSK	BIT(APPLE_S5L_UCON_RXTO_LEGACY_ENA)
 #define APPLE_S5L_UCON_RXTHRESH_ENA_MSK		BIT(APPLE_S5L_UCON_RXTHRESH_ENA)
 #define APPLE_S5L_UCON_TXTHRESH_ENA_MSK		BIT(APPLE_S5L_UCON_TXTHRESH_ENA)
@@ -259,6 +261,7 @@
 					 S3C2410_UCON_RXIRQMODE | \
 					 S3C2410_UCON_RXFIFO_TOI)
 #define APPLE_S5L_UCON_MASK		(APPLE_S5L_UCON_RXTO_ENA_MSK | \
+					 APPLE_S5L_UCON_UNK_MSK | \
 					 APPLE_S5L_UCON_RXTO_LEGACY_ENA_MSK | \
 					 APPLE_S5L_UCON_RXTHRESH_ENA_MSK | \
 					 APPLE_S5L_UCON_TXTHRESH_ENA_MSK)

---
base-commit: cee9395acd8043be0644b25c34bfa86623f2b935
change-id: 20260904-apple-s5l-a18-pro-5f2b3e1a4e4a

Best regards,
--  
Yureka Lilian <yureka at cyberchaos.dev>




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