Subject: Re: [PATCH] Handle reg-shift property for of_serial ports

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 19:52:43 +0200

On Saturday 07 July 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > the reg-shift property. I'll send a patch shortly, and I'll reorder the
> > match table -- if something claims compatibility with both 8250 and
> > 16550, shouldn't we drive it as the latter?
>=20
> =A0 =A0 Certainly. BTW, was there really "ns8250" -- 8250 is Intel's chip?
>=20

No, you're right. http://playground.sun.com/1275/proposals/Closed/Accepted/=
384-it.txt
actually mentions that the the name should be "i8250". It also mentions
that the compatible property should contain "pnpPNP,501" for ns16450 and=20
higher, and "pnpPNP,500" for all serial ports starting from i8250.

	Arnd <><