On Fri, 27 May 2016, Julien Grall wrote: > Hello Shanker, > > On 27/05/16 15:01, Shanker Donthineni wrote: > > On 05/27/2016 08:04 AM, Julien Grall wrote: > > > On 27/05/16 01:28, Shanker Donthineni wrote: > > > > The ARM Server Base System Architecture describes a generic UART > > > > interface. It doesn't support clock control registers to set > > > > baudrate. So, extend the driver probe() to handle SBSA interface > > > > types and set the baudrate to 115200 for SBSA interfaces. > > > > > > I cannot find any mention of the baudrate in the SBSA. Where does it come > > > from? > > > > > Yes, no where mentioned about the baudrate in SBSA document. I used 115200 > > based on the the Linux PL011 driver. > > Looking at the Linux code, it is a default when there is no valid > configuration (which may not be suitable for any platform?). > > Whilst Linux userspace cares about the baudrate, Xen only use it to configure > the hardware. Given that the UART should have been configured by the > hardware-specific software, the proper value should be BAUD_AUTO. > > If you look at the code, pl011_init_preirq will read the baud rate when > uart->baud == BAUD_AUTO but will never be used after.
The problem is that IBRD and FBRD are not part of the SBSA doc, so to make the driver compliant, we would have to skip reading the baudrate too, which shouldn't be a problem. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
