Messages in this thread | | | From | "Hironobu Ishii" <> | Subject | Re: performance-improvement-of-serial-console-via-virtual.patch added to -mm tree | Date | Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:07:55 +0900 |
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Hi Russell,
> Additionally, once all architectures convert to initialising their > serial ports via platform devices (which means include/asm-*/serial.h > becomes essentially empty) and we eliminate serial8250_console_init(), > the 8250 console code can start assuming that more of the uart_port > structure will be initialised. > > At that point, we can start to think about using FIFOs for the > console.
Thank you for FIFO consideration.
me> Before initialization, does tx_loadsz left 0? me> If so, we can easily solve the problem:
I confirmed this assumption is OK in current code, because seiral8250_ports[] is static variable.
We will release revised patch later, please apply our patch until your serial driver re-organization completes.
Thank you. Hironobu Ishii
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