On Tuesday 05 October 2010, Daniel Walker wrote: > Many of JTAG debuggers for ARM support DCC protocol over JTAG > connection, which is very useful to debug hardwares which has no > serial port. This patch adds DCC serial emulation and the console > support. System timer based polling method is used for the > emulation of serial input interrupt handling. > > Most of the code was taken from Hyok S. Choi original work, but the > inline assmebly needed some work and updating. It now supports ARMv7. > Also the description above is from Hyok also. > Sorry to join in late, but why would you want to make this a "serial" driver when it really is just a dumb tty. I think you would be much better off making it a "hvc" driver, where you just need to provide a read character and write character function and an optional interrupt handler but otherwise have the common hvc code take care of polling the hardware and talking to the tty layer. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
