* UART FIFO not working
@ 1995-10-31 23:06 Steve
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From: Steve @ 1995-10-31 23:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
When running on Pentium systems the checks for 16550 FIFO do
not work (registers don't respond fast enough). Here is better
code that checks for FIFO's at system startup time and sets FIFO
depth based on baudrate. Also, it detects certain chipsets that
are known to have non working FIFO's.
diff devuart.c devuart.c.orig
29,35c29
< Frrst= (1<<1), /* receiver reset */
< Fxrst= (1<<2), /* transmit reset */
< Fdma= (1<<3),
< Ftrig1= 0x00, /* trigger after 1 input character */
< Ftrig4= 0x40, /* trigger after 4 input characters */
< Ftrig8= 0x80, /* trigger after 8 input characters */
< Ftrig14= 0xc0, /* trigger after 14 characters */
---
> Ftrig= (1<<6), /* trigger after 4 input characters */
83c77,81
< int fifo; /* fifo control */
---
>
> /* fifo control */
> int fifoon;
> int nofifo;
> int istat;
136,141d133
<
< /* Set the FIFO threshold based on the baudrate */
< if (up->fifo)
< uartwrreg(up, Fifoctl, Fenab|Fxrst|Frrst|
< ((rate <= 1200) ? Ftrig1 :
< (rate > 9600) ? Ftrig14 : Ftrig8));
235a228,255
> void
> uartfifoon(Uart *p)
> {
> ulong i, x;
>
> if(p->nofifo)
> return;
>
> x = splhi();
>
> /* empty buffer */
> for(i = 0; i < 16; i++)
> uartrdreg(p, Data);
> uartintr(0, p);
>
> /* turn on fifo */
> p->fifoon = 1;
> uartwrreg(p, Fifoctl, Fenab|Ftrig);
>
> uartintr(0, p);
> if((p->istat & Fenabd) == 0){
> /* didn't work, must be an earlier chip type */
> p->nofifo = 1;
> }
>
> splx(x);
> }
>
246a267,268
> /* turn on fifo's */
> uartfifoon(up);
250a273,278
>
> /* turn off fifo's */
> if(up->fifoon){
> up->fifoon = 0;
> uartwrreg(up, Fifoctl, 0);
> }
314d341
< print("uart:");
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<
< /* Check for NS16550 fifo */
< up->fifo = 0;
< uartwrreg(up, Fifoctl, Fenab|Frrst|Fxrst|Ftrig14);
<
< delay(100);
<
< print(" %d: ", up - uart);
< if ((uartrdreg(up, Istat) & 0xc0) == 0xc0)
< if ((uartrdreg(up, Fifoctl) & Ftrig14) == Ftrig14) {
< up->fifo = 1;
< print("ns16550a fifo", up - uart);
< }
< else
< print("ns82550/16550, broken fifo");
< else
< print("ns82450/16450, no fifo");
< uartwrreg(up, Fifoctl, 0);
<
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< print("\n");
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