[PATCH 6/9] serial: workaround TI AR7 silicon bug

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Mon Jun 01 2009 - 08:01:30 EST


This patch make the serial8250_console_putchar work
on TI AR7 hardware which has a hardware bug clobbering
serial characters resulting in an almost unusable
kernel console.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/drivers/serial/8250.c b/drivers/serial/8250.c
index 03376b0..16b5a7e 100644
--- a/drivers/serial/8250.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/8250.c
@@ -2694,7 +2694,11 @@ static void serial8250_console_putchar(struct uart_port *port, int ch)
{
struct uart_8250_port *up = (struct uart_8250_port *)port;

+#ifdef CONFIG_AR7
+ wait_for_xmitr(up, BOTH_EMPTY);
+#else
wait_for_xmitr(up, UART_LSR_THRE);
+#endif
serial_out(up, UART_TX, ch);
}

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