Re: [PATCH v4 12/21] serial: support for 16550A serial ports on LP-8x4x

[Sergei Ianovich]

One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:01:47 +0400
>Sergei Ianovich <ynvich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> +	baud = uart_get_baud_rate(port, termios, old,
>> >> +				  port->uartclk / 16 / 0xffff,
>> >> +				  port->uartclk / 16);
>> >> +	switch (baud) {
>> >> +	case 2400:
>> >> +		len |= 1;
>> >> +		break;
>> >> +	case 4800:
>> >> +		len |= 2;
>> >> +		break;
>> >> +	case 19200:
>> >> +		len |= 4;
>> >> +		break;
>> >> +	case 38400:
>> >> +		len |= 5;
>> >> +		break;
>> >> +	case 57600:
>> >> +		len |= 6;
>> >> +		break;
>> >> +	case 115200:
>> >> +		len |= 7;
>> >> +		break;
>> >> +	case 9600:
>> >> +	default:
>> >> +		len |= 3;
>> >> +		break;
>> >> +	};
>> >
>> >Some explanation of this would be useful - eg why is it set to 7 for
>> >115200 baud and 3 for 115201 baud ?
>> 
>> I am not related to the device vendor in any way, so please take my
>answers for what they are worth.
>> 
>> It seems that there is not enough pins to properly connect the chips
>to the memory bus and just you the standard 8250 UART driver. Instead,
>clock divisor is set using this register.
>> 
>> So, if you know you're asking for (115200) you get it. If you don't
>or guess (115201), you get the default 9600.
>
>Thats not quite what the code actually implements though.

>> This is a policy, it may not be the right way to write a driver, but
>it is cheap and it works.

>If thats how the hardware works and only supports a few fixed rates
>then
>fine, but for default: you need to actually update he baudrate in the
>passed termios struct so that the userspace knows its request was not
>matched.
>
>Take a look how the standard 8250 termios does it.

I will. I've tested the driver by setting termios from userspace. There was no chance to ask for arbitrary rate, so I didn't think much about this case.

>Also looking at this and some of the other serial bits I see no
>dependencies on the problematic DMA driver, so does that mean you've
>got
>a set of pieces that can be submitted anyway while the DMA driver
>discussion continues ?

Yes, getting each peace in will reduce the support burden.

The degree of interdependence varies from feature to feature. rtc, mtd, irq and serial could be taken independently.

The main patch is #8. It requires #1-7. The is problem with DMA is one of policy, not technical one. It is explained in #6-7 in details.

Everything in the misc depends on bus. But the bus is very simple. There is even no interrupts.

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