On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 15:03 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > Because a probability of FIFO overrun. > > There is a big chapter ("Peripheral Burst Transaction Requests") in > dw_apb_dmac_db.pdf covering this. I thought there was flow control between the controller and the FIFO here ? I don't have the spec SoC spec for the UART to hand but, if memory serves... -- 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