[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 17/17] ns16550: wait for TENT before initializing

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Sat Sep 22 02:01:27 CEST 2012


This prevents output problems (including a loss of synchronization
observed on p2020 that persisted for quite a while) if SPL has output
still on its way out.  I'm not sure why this is only now beginning to
happen, though.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
---
 drivers/serial/ns16550.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/serial/ns16550.c b/drivers/serial/ns16550.c
index 0c23955..66201b6 100644
--- a/drivers/serial/ns16550.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/ns16550.c
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@
 
 void NS16550_init(NS16550_t com_port, int baud_divisor)
 {
+	while (!(serial_in(&com_port->lsr) & UART_LSR_TEMT))
+		;
+
 	serial_out(CONFIG_SYS_NS16550_IER, &com_port->ier);
 #if (defined(CONFIG_OMAP) && !defined(CONFIG_OMAP3_ZOOM2)) || \
 					defined(CONFIG_AM33XX)
-- 
1.7.9.5




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