Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:29:54 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: ip3106_uart oddity |
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 06:29:48PM +0400, Vitaly Wool wrote: > it looks like drivers/serial/ip3106_uart.c was dropped from the > mainline at some point I couldn't identify. Can you please confirm > that?
I am not aware of its addition nor removal of this file. There was au1x00_uart.c at one time.
> I'd like to take the burden of restoring the UART functionality for > PNX8550 boards in the mainline. This very UART HW is very weird and > doesn't fit well into 8250 model, even with fixups like those that > were introduced for Alchemy. It also differs from the IP_3106-based > UARTs used on Philips ARM targets in registers layout so I'm not > sure it's correct to call it ip3106_uart. > So, given the above, does it make sense to try make it fir into > standard 8250 driver model or restore/rework the custom driver?
No real clue. Is it similar to any other drivers?
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