[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2 v2] misc: Add simple driver to enable the legacy UART on Winbond Super IO chips

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Tue Jan 19 14:15:20 CET 2016


On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 9:05 PM, Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de> wrote:
> On most x86 boards, the legacy serial ports (io address 0x3f8/0x2f8)
> are provided by a superio chip connected to the LPC bus. We must
> program the superio chip so that serial ports are available for us.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> Cc: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> ---
> v2:
> - Address Bin's comments:
>   - Make description more generic, so that other functions of this
>     Winbond super IO chip may be integrated
>   - Lowercase hex value
>   - Minor changes to the comments
>
>  drivers/misc/Kconfig          |  8 ++++++++
>  drivers/misc/Makefile         |  1 +
>  drivers/misc/winbond_w83627.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/winbond_w83627.h      | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 85 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/winbond_w83627.c
>  create mode 100644 include/winbond_w83627.h
>

Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>


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