Re: SIIG DP CyberSerial 4S PCIe Support

From: Andrey Panin
Date: Wed Mar 24 2010 - 04:33:01 EST


On 078, 03 19, 2010 at 07:05:38PM -0700, James Lamanna wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:45:08 +0300
> > "Andrey Panin" <pazke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On 068, 03 09, 2010 at 07:09:21AM -0800, James Lamanna wrote:
> >> > On Mar 9, 2010, at 6:15, "Andrey Panin" <pazke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > >On 067, 03 08, 2010 at 09:15:26PM -0800, James Lamanna wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > >>That's probably the case.
> >> > >>It looks like 8250 doesn't know about this PCIe device at all.
> >> > >>The Oxford PCI ID is not in pci_ids.h nor is the SIIG subsystem ID.
> >> > >>I'll see if I can maybe work up a patch to support this device,
> >> > >>since I've found
> >> > >>the datasheet for the Oxford 4 port UART controller, but I may
> >> > >>need some help.
> >> > >>Or if anyone else (who has more experience with this) wants to
> >> > >>formulate one,
> >> > >>it would be greatly appreciated.
> >> > >
> >> > >Looks like you card can use existing code for Oxford Semiconductor
> >> > >UARTs.
> >> > >Can you test the attached patch for 2.6.33 ?
> >> >
> >> > Hi Andrey,
> >> > Coincidentally I found your patch for 2.6.28 that I was able to
> >> > backport to 2.6.24. The card seems to be working great!
> >> > Is this patch in mainline now?
> >>
> >> Now I'm confused, because I can't remember SIIG related patches for 2.6.28.
> >
> > I'm confused too.  If someone had a patch which they think needs to be
> > applied, please resend it?
>
> I believe this was the patch/diff that I saw:
> http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/28/drivers/serial/8250_pci.c

So you backported this patch and then applied my patch to get your card working ?
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