From: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 14:48:08 -0400
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] tty: serial: Add 8250-core based omap driver
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 06:00:09PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> This patch provides a 8250-core based UART driver for the internal OMAP
> UART. The longterm goal is to provide the same functionality as the
> current OMAP uart driver and hopefully DMA support which could borrowed
> from the 8250-core.

This sounds interesting.  We are currently finding the omap serial driver
awefully slow at handling serial traffic with ti's 3.12.y kernel branch,
while the 3.8.y was seemingly a bit better (on the dra7xx eval board).
Haven't had time to really investigate that yet though.

> The whole PM-Runtime part is currently missing.
> It has been only tested as console UART.
> The tty name is ttyS based instead of ttyO. How big is the pain here,
> what could be the easiest way to provide compatibility?

I would certainly love to see ttyS instead of ttyO.  But of course I am
working on a new system that isn't released yet so changing things is
a complete non issue for me. :)

I should give this driver a try and see how it compares so far.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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