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| author | Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> | 2017-05-02 09:45:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-05-18 16:19:16 +0200 |
| commit | 7fbcf3afe6e8e180bfc39fb3f41657fa6e4af55c (patch) | |
| tree | 8fce64827bd08687c18af1e95941f7cc809a6e43 /drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig | |
| parent | serial: 8250: Add flag so drivers can avoid THRE probe (diff) | |
| download | linux-7fbcf3afe6e8e180bfc39fb3f41657fa6e4af55c.tar.xz linux-7fbcf3afe6e8e180bfc39fb3f41657fa6e4af55c.zip | |
drivers/serial: Add driver for Aspeed virtual UART
This change adds a driver for the 16550-based Aspeed virtual UART
device. We use a similar process to the of_serial driver for device
probe, but expose some VUART-specific functions through sysfs too.
The VUART is two UART 'front ends' connected by their FIFO (no actual
serial line in between). One is on the BMC side (management controller)
and one is on the host CPU side.
This driver is for the BMC side. The sysfs files allow the BMC
userspace, which owns the system configuration policy, to specify at
what IO port and interrupt number the host side will appear to the host
on the Host <-> BMC LPC bus. It could be different on a different system
(though most of them use 3f8/4).
OpenPOWER host firmware doesn't like it when the host-side of the
VUART's FIFO is not drained. This driver only disables host TX discard
mode when the port is in use. We set the VUART enabled bit when we bind
to the device, and clear it on unbind.
We don't want to do this on open/release, as the host may be using this
bit to configure serial output modes, which is independent of whether
the devices has been opened by BMC userspace.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig index 0e3f529d50e9..a1161ec0256f 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig @@ -224,6 +224,16 @@ config SERIAL_8250_ACCENT To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called 8250_accent. +config SERIAL_8250_ASPEED_VUART + tristate "Aspeed Virtual UART" + depends on SERIAL_8250 + depends on OF + help + If you want to use the virtual UART (VUART) device on Aspeed + BMC platforms, enable this option. This enables the 16550A- + compatible device on the local LPC bus, giving a UART device + with no physical RS232 connections. + config SERIAL_8250_BOCA tristate "Support Boca cards" depends on SERIAL_8250 != n && ISA && SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS |