heads up - changing uart -> uart_ar71xx

[Adrian Chadd]

The glue code that sets up the ar71xx uart itself - there's some bus
glue in mips/atheros/.



adrian

On 17 November 2012 00:28, Rodney W. Grimes
<freebsd at pdx.rh.cn85.chatusa.com> wrote:
> Im having some confusion factor here .. perhaps its just caused by the wording
> that is being used.
>
> Why is there gona be something called ``uart_ar71xx''?   As far as I know
> there is a uart in the ar71xx, yes, but it isnt a uart specific to the ar71xx
> family at all.
>> On Nov 16, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>>
>> > This should be cleaned up better than that, what -kind- of uart is it?
>> > There should be things called
>> >     uart_8250 (should be able to drive everything from 8250 to 16950)
>> >     uart_8530 (this is probalby the second most common uart in the world)
>> >     uart_6850 (we would probably never see one of these)
>> >     etc...
>> >
>> > Please do not lock this to a specific Mips chip if at all possible
>>
>> uart already services a dozen of other UARTs. It isn't tied to MIPS at all.
> Thats what I thought.
>
>> All Adrian seems to be doing is making what was automatic configuration a
>> little more manual.
>
> I question the choice of labels to trigger that then....
>
>> Warner
>>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I've started digging into AR933x support and I've discovered that the
>> >> UART is not an NS8250 style thing.
>> >>
>> >> So I'm going to shuffle the ar71xx uart code around to require both
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> What code is specific only to the ar71xx and has anything to do with a uart?
>
>> >> 'uart' and 'uart_ar71xx'.
>> >>
>> >> I'll update the config files appropriately.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Adrian
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