linux-kernel - Re: make 16C950 UARTs work

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Date:	Wed, 2 Aug 2006 22:59:58 +0100
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mathias Adam <a2@...mis.de>
Subject: Re: make 16C950 UARTs work

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:08:56PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Mer, 2006-08-02 am 15:49 -0400, ysgrifennodd Dave Jones:
> > This patch has been submitted a number of times, and doesn't seem
> > to get any upstream traction, which is a shame, as it seems to work
> > for users, and I keep inadvertantly dropping it from the Fedora
> > kernel everytime I rebase it.
> 
> We really ought to do that based on the PCI subvendor/subdevice id of
> the boards in use if possible surely ? It ought to be safe for x86
> because nobody is going to use anything but chip default values so they
> can avoid needing a ROM.

Not correct - there are PCMCIA-based versions of these chips and they
do have weirdo values in the registers to cope with custom crystals
which magically vanish if you reset the UART.

dwmw2's 950-based bluetooth CF card does exactly this.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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