Re: [PATCH V1] serial: imx: revert setup DCEDTE early and ensure DCD and RI irqs to be off

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hey Fabio,

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 08:52:50AM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Steve Twiss
> <stwiss.opensource@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The USB to UART connection gets corrupted.
> > If this patch is applied to the kernel, the i.MX6 Q (quad), and only this board as far as
> > we know, starts to fail. This does *not* change the i.MX6DL and other sabre boards
> > have been tested on kernelci.org and do not see a problem.
> >
> > An NXP/Freescale SABRESD i.MX6 Q board is requred.
> >
> > My system for testing is to TFTP the Linux kernel over an ethernet connection. The
> > U-boot executes okay and the UART is working at that point. When the kernel loads
> > the console trace becomes garbled, in the sense that I get the some characters being
> > output to the console, in the style of the kernel starting up, but they are not correct.
> >
> > I expect the kernel has started ok, but I am unable to read/write through the UART
> > console because of corruptions.
> >
> > Console log with the output I am seeing with linux-next/v4.12-rc2
> > --- 8< ---
> > U-Boot 2009.08-00001-gf65536a (Jan 12 2015 - 15:47:19)
> 
> Thanks for your detailed explanation.
> 
> I also have a mx6q sabresd board here, but the error did not happen
> when I use a recent U-Boot version.
> 
> I would like to use the same U-Boot version here as well to help
> debugging this problem.
> 
> Could you please let me know which 2009.08 branch you used? Is it any
> one from git.freescale.com
> http://git.freescale.com/git/cgit.cgi/imx/uboot-imx.git/refs/heads ?

The problem is that RFDIV, RXTL and TXTL are overwritten in the UFCR
register.

Best regards
Uwe

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