[U-Boot] [PATCH] serial, ns16550: bugfix: ns16550 fifo not enabled

[Heiko Schocher]

Hi Marek,

Am 11.01.2017 um 16:11 schrieb Marek Vasut:
> On 01/10/2017 05:40 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 08:08:51AM +0100, Heiko Schocher wrote:
>>> commit: 65f83802b7a5b "serial: 16550: Add getfcr accessor"
>>> breaks u-boot commandline working with long commands
>>> sending to the board.
>>>
>>> Since the above patch, you have to setup the fcr register.
>>>
>>> For board/archs which enable OF_PLATDATA, the new field
>>> fcr in struct ns16550_platdata is not filled with a
>>> default value ...
>>>
>>> This leads in not setting up the uarts fifo, which ends
>>> in problems, when you send long commands to u-boots
>>> commandline.
>>>
>>> Detected this issue with automated tbot tests on am335x
>>> based shc board.
>>>
>>> The error does not popup, if you type commands. You need
>>> to copy&paste a long command to u-boots commandshell
>>> (or send a long command with tbot)
>>>
>>> Possible boards/plattforms with problems:
>>> ./arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/lpc32xx/devices.c
>>> ./arch/arm/mach-tegra/board.c
>>> ./board/isee/igep00x0/igep00x0.c
>>> ./board/overo/overo.c
>>> ./board/quipos/cairo/cairo.c
>>> ./board/logicpd/omap3som/omap3logic.c
>>> ./board/logicpd/zoom1/zoom1.c
>>> ./board/timll/devkit8000/devkit8000.c
>>> ./board/lg/sniper/sniper.c
>>> ./board/ti/beagle/beagle.c
>>> ./drivers/serial/serial_rockchip.c
>>>
>>> This patch fixes only:
>>> ./arch/arm/mach-omap2/am33xx/board.c
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
>>
>> Good find!  I didn't catch this in my setups as nothing in test.py is
>> currently long enough to trigger this apparently (I have both an am335x
>> evm and a beagleboard in my setup).  By inspection, the right fix for
>> all platforms would be to put the old default value in as this is what
>> was missed in the original patch from Marek.
>>
> It was probably missed because this patch pre-dates the OF_PLATDATA
> addition and was stuck in the ML for too long.

No problem, I prepare a fix. But it shows how important would be,
that we have as much as possible boards in a real life test setup...
(and of course, as much as possible testcases)

bye,
Heiko
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