RE: [PATCH V2] tty/serial: add support for Xilinx PS UART

[John Linn]

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> From: glikely@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:glikely@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Grant Likely
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 9:41 AM
> To: John Linn
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] tty/serial: add support for Xilinx PS UART
> 
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:03 PM, John Linn <john.linn@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > The Xilinx PS Uart is used on the new ARM based SoC. This
> > UART is not compatible with others such that a seperate
> > driver is required.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: John Linn <john.linn@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Out of curiosity, who is the vendor of this uart IP block?  Is it new
> hardware created by xilinx for zinq, or is it provided by a third
> party.  If its from a third party it is within the realm of
> possibility that a driver already exists for it.
> 
> g.

Hi Grant,

It is an IP block from a vendor. I would like to say, but would have 
my head handed to me I'm told. I wish it wasn't that way as it's not 
helping the open source process.

I did try to review all the drivers and their registers to see if 
there was already one written before I sent the patches.  I didn't 
see one that matched as it would definitely be easier if there was.

Thanks,
John

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