On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 02:01:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Is there a good reason, why we don't check for BOTH_EMPTY in > > serial8250_console_putchar() ? To match the 2.6.10 behaviour we > > A very good one - we have at least 1 byte of FIFO and the serial-ethernet > magic console devices also use that fifo emptying entirely to deduce when > to send a new packet. ok, now I understand. > > would need that and this would fix the AR7 case without any > > special handling. > > If the AR7 is an 8250 why does it need special handling? and indeed why > does serial work on it except for console - or does that fail too. well TI calls it a 16550A and I still wonder about the reported problems. Looks like I need to dig a little bit deeper... Thomas. -- Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]
