Dear Terje, 
Did you find how to use the 8250 driver with * .dts?

Pour utiliser le pilote 8250, vous aurez aussi besoin de modifier le fichier 
* .dts.

Le mercredi 12 novembre 2014 18:32:11 UTC+1, Terje Froysa a écrit :
>
> Thanks Robert,
> for taking your time to enlight a newbie.
>  
> The fog is slowly lifting....
>  
> Regards
> Terje
>
> On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 6:01:52 PM UTC+1, RobertCNelson wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Terje Froysa <[email protected]> 
>> wrote: 
>> > Robert, 
>> > just for my curiosity and pease of mind: 
>> > 
>> > If the 8250 have been "no mainline" for several years and there are no 
>> > dtbo's to enable it. 
>> > Why is the ttySx still there and the 8250 by default enabled in the 
>> -bone67 
>> > ? 
>>
>> The history goes like this.. 
>>
>> Back in the "board" era, omap used the 8250 driver, then "new" 
>> non-generic features where added enabling omap features, thus making 
>> the "omap-serial" driver. Then came device tree's.. First the 
>> omap-serial driver got it's dts bindings and all omap devices used 
>> them.  In the background, 8250 got some more generic enhancements and 
>> generic dts bindings... Fast forward the 8250 now has even shinny-er 
>> better features then the lagging omap-serial driver.. Thus it was 
>> decided to move back, in a release or two.. 
>>
>> That ^ may be childlish, but it's the condensed version of pages and 
>> pages of discussions on linux-omap.... 
>>
>> Regards, 
>>
>> -- 
>> Robert Nelson 
>> http://www.rcn-ee.com/ 
>>
>

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