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Date:      Thu, 29 May 2014 22:46:48 +0200
From:      Olivier Houchard <cognet@ci0.org>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r266855 - head/sys/dev/uart
Message-ID:  <20140529204648.GA6936@ci0.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140529204454.GB43976@funkthat.com>
References:  <201405291957.s4TJvp07085910@svn.freebsd.org> <20140529204454.GB43976@funkthat.com>

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On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 01:44:54PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Olivier Houchard wrote this message on Thu, May 29, 2014 at 19:57 +0000:
> > Author: cognet
> > Date: Thu May 29 19:57:51 2014
> > New Revision: 266855
> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/266855
> > 
> > Log:
> >   In the grab function, keep the bit 6 on in the IER, on XScale, using 0
> >   turns the UART off, which is unfortunate if one want to use it as a console.
> > 
> > Modified:
> >   head/sys/dev/uart/uart_dev_ns8250.c
> > 
> > Modified: head/sys/dev/uart/uart_dev_ns8250.c
> > ==============================================================================
> > --- head/sys/dev/uart/uart_dev_ns8250.c	Thu May 29 19:48:18 2014	(r266854)
> > +++ head/sys/dev/uart/uart_dev_ns8250.c	Thu May 29 19:57:51 2014	(r266855)
> > @@ -929,6 +929,7 @@ void
> >  ns8250_bus_grab(struct uart_softc *sc)
> >  {
> >  	struct uart_bas *bas = &sc->sc_bas;
> > +	struct ns8250_softc *ns8250 = (struct ns8250_softc*)sc;
> >  
> >  	/*
> >  	 * turn off all interrupts to enter polling mode. Leave the
> > @@ -936,7 +937,11 @@ ns8250_bus_grab(struct uart_softc *sc)
> >  	 * All pending interupt signals are reset when IER is set to 0.
> >  	 */
> >  	uart_lock(sc->sc_hwmtx);
> > -	uart_setreg(bas, REG_IER, 0);
> > +	/*
> > +	 * On XScale, bit 6 (0x40) is the UART Unit Enable, removing it
> > +	 * turns the UART completely off,  so make sure it is stays there.
> > +	 */
> > +	uart_setreg(bas, REG_IER, ns8250->ier & 0x40);
> >  	uart_barrier(bas);
> >  	uart_unlock(sc->sc_hwmtx);
> >  }
> 
> Should this be using ns8250->ier_mask instead of 0x40?
> 
> It also looks like AVILA doesn't have the hints to set this like
> GUMSTIX does, and maybe adding this will help?
> 

Hmm you're right, this is probably better, I'll just do that :)

Olivier



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