Hi! This series implements support for using RX FIFO thresholds higher than one in PIO mode on SCIF, HSCIF, SCIFA and SCIFB serial ports. This was originally implemented to fulfill a request for a software timer-based solution, but I have found that it is not sensible to implement such a feature on SCIF and HSCIF. These IPs do not support disabling of the hardware timeout feature that all SCIFs have, and that triggers an interrupt if no new data has arrived for more than 1.5 frames. This series therefore enables the hardware timeout for SCIFs and HSCIFs, and the software timeout for SCIFAs and SCIFBs only. (Hardware timeout on SCIFA/B is possible, but has not been implemented here due to a lack of time. The same goes for the limited amount of tuning of the hardware timeout that is possible on HSCIF ports.) Two sysfs attributes are added to tune the FIFO behavior: - rx_fifo_trigger: Controls the trigger level at which an interrupt is forced. Works for both hardware and software timeout. - rx_fifo_timeout: Software timeout in frames upon which the FIFOs are checked even if no interrupt is triggered. Zero (default) disables the timeout. (SCIFA and SCIFB only) CU Uli Ulrich Hecht (7): serial: sh-sci: add FIFO trigger bits serial: sh-sci: consider DR (data ready) bit adequately serial: sh-sci: implement FIFO threshold register setting serial: sh-sci: increase RX FIFO trigger defaults for (H)SCIF serial: sh-sci: SCIFA/B RX FIFO software timeout serial: sh-sci: make RX FIFO parameters tunable via sysfs arm64: dts: r8a7796: salvator-x: add SCIF1 (DEBUG1) arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a7796-salvator-x.dts | 12 + drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c | 254 ++++++++++++++++++--- drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.h | 7 + 3 files changed, 238 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) -- 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
