Re: [PATCH 0/3] tty: serial: 8250_omap: Enable DMA support

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Thu Jan 19 2017 - 09:55:22 EST


* Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [170119 05:25]:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 10:20:21AM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Vignesh R <vigneshr@xxxxxx> [170113 00:03]:
> > > This patch series re enables DMA support for UART 8250_omap driver.
> > >
> > > Tested on AM335x, AM437x that use EDMA and OMAP5 and DRA74 EVM with
> > > SDMA.
> >
> > Is 8250_omap serial console working for you on omap5 in general?
> >
> > I've noticed that it's really unresponsive for me as if the FIFO
> > interrupt was not working. For example logging in might take several
> > attempts and a long time with each character showing up much later
> > after some timeout.
> >
> > TX on the uart on omap5 seems to work OK, I do see all the console
> > messages fine. And these patches do not make the issue better or
> > worse.
>
> Ok, I'm dropping them from my review queue then.

It turned out to be not related to this set of patches, Vignesh
posted a fix for it. For this set:

Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>