Re: [PATCH v1 tty] 8250: microchip: Add 4 Mbps support in PCI1XXXX UART

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Feb 01 2024 - 06:59:42 EST


On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 10:52:41AM +0000, Rengarajan.S@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Sun, 2024-01-28 at 17:27 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 03:36:19PM +0530, Rengarajan S wrote:

..

> > > +     /*
> > > +      * Microchip PCI1XXXX UART supports maximum baud rate up to 4
> > > Mbps
> > > +      */
> > > +     if (up->port.type == PORT_MCHP16550A)
> > > +             max = 4000000;
> >
> > No. Please refactor the way the 8250_port won't be modified.
> >
> > Also you have a define for this constant, use it.
>
> The current UART clk in MCHP Ports in pci1xxxx.c is set to 62.5 MHz in
> order to support fractional baud rates which enables generation of
> acceptable baud rate and lower error percentage from any available
> frequency. With 62.5 MHz the maximum supported baud rate supported as
> per serial_8250_get_baud_rate is 3.9 Mbps. In order to extend the
> support to 4 Mbps we had hardcoded the max value to 4 Mbps. Since, baud
> rate is calculated here we needed to make these changes in 8250_port
> and could not find a way to handle as part 8250_pci1xxxx. Can you let
> us know any alternatives to address this upper(max) limit?

Update port->uartclk accordingly in your driver, see how other 8250_* drivers
do that (e.g., 8250_mid).

So, it will no go with hack in the 8250_port.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko