>>This I would hope you can hide in the platform specific
>>serial_in/serial_out functions. If you write the UART_LCR save it in
>>serial_out(), if you read IER etc.
> I couldn't find hooks for platform specific serial_in/out functions.
It's because there are none. :-)
> Do you mean using the up->port.iotype's in serial_in/out from 8250.c?
Not sure what Alan meant, but this seems the only option for now.
That's the conclusion I came to. I've rewritten the patch to use port.type
instead of iotype since one of the fix is SoC and not UART specific. I guess
I could use both iotype and type with a test on each for the appropriate
bug, what do you recommend?
>>And we might want to add a void * for board specific insanity to the 8250
>>structures if we really have to so you can hang your brain damage
>>privately off that ?
> Sounds good to me, it would give us a location to store the address of the
> UART_STATUS_REG required by this UART variant.
I doubt we really need to *store* it somewhere. Isn't it an fixed offset
from UART's base (I haven't seen the header)?
Unfortunately it's not a constant offset from the UART in the SoC register
space. I've used Alan suggestion and added a classic, on some other OSes %-|,
void "user" pointer.
Marc