Hi, I modified the code a little and run it on our HW platform, it really show some sigh of life: it can boots to console (the print format is not so good), I can input command and it execute correctly, but very slow, I type 3 characters and it takes about 2 seconds to echo back on screen and start the execution, and after about 1 minute, the console hang there and input stopped to work. I also have some comments inline. Thanks, Feng On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:29:30 +0800 Christian Pellegrin <chripell@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > This patch adds console support for the MAX3100 UART > (console=ttyMAX0,11500). The SPI subsystem and an 115200? > > +#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_MAX3100_CONSOLE > + > +static void max3100_console_work(struct work_struct *w) > +{ > + struct max3100_port *s = container_of(w, struct max3100_port, > + console_work); > + unsigned long start; > + u16 tx, rx; > + > + while (s->console_head != s->console_tail && > + (s->console_flags & MAX3100_SUSPENDING) == 0) { > + start = jiffies; > + do { > + tx = MAX3100_RC; > + max3100_sr(s, tx, &rx); > + } while ((rx & MAX3100_T) == 0 && > + !time_after(jiffies, start + > s->console_tout)); > + tx = s->console_buf[s->console_tail]; > + max3100_calc_parity(s, &tx); > + tx |= MAX3100_WD | MAX3100_RTS; Does this imply to have to work with HW flow control? on my platform I have to remove the RTS bit to make it work. > + max3100_sr(s, tx, &rx); It doesn't handle received characters here? If the console is printing out a bulk of message while user input some command, the command may be ignored. Myself have met the same problem in our driver. > + s->console_tail = (s->console_tail + 1) % > CONSOLE_BUF_SIZE; > + } > +} > + > +static void max3100_console_putchar(struct uart_port *port, int ch) > +{ > + struct max3100_port *s = to_max3100_port(port); > + int next = (s->console_head + 1) % CONSOLE_BUF_SIZE; > + > + if (next != s->console_tail) { > + s->console_buf[next] = ch; > + s->console_head = next; > + } Also I saw max3100_sr() uses cpu_to_be16() and be16_to_cpu(), is it really necessary, our platform is little-endian(x86), and I have to disable them to make the code work. Is your test platform big-endian? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html