Currently autoconf spends 25ms (on my laptop) testing if the UART exported to it by KVM is an 8250 without FIFO and/or with strange quirks, which it obviously isn't. Assume it is exported to us by a hypervisor, it's a normal, working 16550A. Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c index 00ad2637..de19924 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c @@ -1171,6 +1171,13 @@ static void autoconfig(struct uart_8250_port *up) if (!port->iobase && !port->mapbase && !port->membase) return; + /* Hypervisors always export working 16550A devices. */ + if (cpu_has_hypervisor) { + up->port.type = PORT_16550A; + up->capabilities |= UART_CAP_FIFO; + return; + } + DEBUG_AUTOCONF("ttyS%d: autoconf (0x%04lx, 0x%p): ", serial_index(port), port->iobase, port->membase); -- 2.7.4 -- 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