RE: serial port input corruption with 2.6.32?

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>From: linux-omap-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-omap-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin
>Hilman
>Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 5:27 PM
>To: Steve Sakoman
>Cc: Robert Nelson; linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: serial port input corruption with 2.6.32?
>
>Steve Sakoman <sakoman@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Steve Sakoman <sakoman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> I'm seeing some strange behavior with my console serial port with 2.6.32.
>>>>
<snip>
>This will also have obvious and serious PM implications for non
>serial-console devices connected to UARTs (IrDA, bluetooth, modems,
>etc.)

OMAP uarts for BT etc use h/w flow control, which is another way of waking up omap before sending any chars and hence don’t loose data.

Console uses no flow control as you know.

>
>I've heard some ideas of muxing the UART into GPIO mode when idle and
>having a bitbanging to get the first char so it is not lost, but
>haven't seen any patches to do it.
>
>While it doesn't really solve your problem, I hope it at least helps
>understand the reason for it.

You could write a book on uart pm :)

>
>Kevin
>
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