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2008-07-24serial: Z85C30: avoid a hang at console switch-overMaciej W. Rozycki
Changes to the generic console support code that happened a while ago introduced a scenario where the initial console is used in parallel with the final console during a brief period when switching between the two is in progress. During that time a message about the switch-over is printed. With some combinations of chips, firmware and drivers, such as the Zilog Z85C30 SCC used with the DECstation, a hang may happen because the firmware used for the initial console may not expect the state of the chip after it has been initialised by the driver. This is not a bug in the firmware, as some registers it would have to examine are write-only. This is a workaround for the Z85C30 which reuses the power-management callback to keep the transmitter of the line associated with the console enabled. It reflects the consensus reached in a discussion a while ago. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-20Fix compile errors in SGI console drivers (linux-next tree)Takashi Iwai
The below is the patch to replace blindly all possible places, including Jack's fixes. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> (Reviewed and checked rather than blindly added) Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-18zs: move to the serial subsystemMaciej W. Rozycki
This is a reimplementation of the zs driver for the serial subsystem. Any resemblance to the old driver is purely coincidential. ;-) I do hope I got the handling of modem lines right -- better do not tackle me about the issue unless you feel too good... Any users of the old driver: please note the numbers of the serial lines have now been swapped, i.e. ttyS0 <-> ttyS1 and ttyS2 <-> ttyS3. It has to do with the modem lines mentioned above; basically the port A in a given chip has to be initialised before the port B if you want to use the latter as the serial console (which is usually the case), as operations on modem lines of the serial line associated with the port B access both ports (see the comment at the top of the driver for the details of wiring used). Please update your scripts. This is also the reason each SCC now requests an IRQ once only (as seen in "/proc/interrupts") -- the handler takes care of both ports at once as the line associated with the port B has to take status update interrupts from both ports (and yet the line of the port A takes its own for itself too). The old driver never got it right... Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>