On 20.08.21 00:58, Randy Dunlap wrote:
On 8/16/21 2:41 PM, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 02:15:51PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
On 8/16/21 2:09 PM, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 01:30:26PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
There is no 8250 serial on S390. See commit 1598e38c0770.
There's a 8250 serial device on the PCI card. Its been
ages since I've worked on the architecture, but does S390
even support PCI?
Yes, it does.
We do support PCI, but only a (very) limited amount of cards.
So there never will be a PCI card with 8250 on s390 and
I also doubt that we will see the "OpenCompute TimeCard"
on s390.
So in essence the original patch is ok but the patch below
would also be ok for KVM. But it results in a larger kernel
with code that will never be used. So I guess the original
patch is the better choice.
Is this driver useful even without 8250 serial?
The FB timecard has an FPGA that will internally parse the
GNSS strings and correct the clock, so the PTP clock will
work even without the serial devices.
However, there are userspace tools which want to read the
GNSS signal (for holdolver and leap second indication),
which is why they are exposed.
So what do you recommend here?
Looking at 1598e38c0770, it appears the 8250 console is the
problem. Couldn't S390 be fenced by SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE, instead
of SERIAL_8250, which would make the 8250 driver available?
OK, that sounds somewhat reasonable.
For now, just disabling the driver on S390 sounds reasonable.
S390 people, how does this look to you?
This still avoids having serial 8250 console conflicting
with S390's sclp console.
(reference commit 1598e38c0770)
---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- linux-next-20210819.orig/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
+++ linux-next-20210819/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
config SERIAL_8250
tristate "8250/16550 and compatible serial support"
- depends on !S390
select SERIAL_CORE
select SERIAL_MCTRL_GPIO if GPIOLIB
help
@@ -85,6 +84,7 @@ config SERIAL_8250_FINTEK
config SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE
bool "Console on 8250/16550 and compatible serial port"
depends on SERIAL_8250=y
+ depends on !S390
select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
select SERIAL_EARLYCON
help
