It looks like we're going to use com(4) on armv7 after all. Given that we have a device tree there, we have a pretty good idea what UART type we're driving. So we should be able to avoid the flaky probing code in com(4). Here is a diff that makes the driver only do the probing if the uart type was set to COM_UART_UNKNOWN at the start. This is the default if you don't explicitly set it in the bus glue part of the driver. There are a few bits of glue code that do set te uart type. Of those only arch/octeon/dev/cn30xxuart.c sets it to a value that makes com(4) go through the probing codepath.
Can somebody verify that this diff doesn't break octeon? Thanks, Mark Index: dev/ic/com.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/dev/ic/com.c,v retrieving revision 1.158 diff -u -p -r1.158 com.c --- dev/ic/com.c 14 Sep 2014 14:17:24 -0000 1.158 +++ dev/ic/com.c 15 Aug 2016 21:23:58 -0000 @@ -1583,6 +1583,7 @@ com_attach_subr(struct com_softc *sc) { bus_space_tag_t iot = sc->sc_iot; bus_space_handle_t ioh = sc->sc_ioh; + int probe = 0; u_int8_t lcr; sc->sc_ier = 0; @@ -1616,7 +1617,7 @@ com_attach_subr(struct com_softc *sc) /* * Skip specific probes if attachment code knows it already. */ - if (sc->sc_uarttype == COM_UART_UNKNOWN) + if (sc->sc_uarttype == COM_UART_UNKNOWN) { switch (bus_space_read_1(iot, ioh, com_iir) >> 6) { case 0: sc->sc_uarttype = COM_UART_16450; @@ -1631,8 +1632,11 @@ com_attach_subr(struct com_softc *sc) sc->sc_uarttype = COM_UART_UNKNOWN; break; } + probe = 1; + } - if (sc->sc_uarttype == COM_UART_16550A) { /* Probe for ST16650s */ + /* Probe for ST16650s */ + if (probe && sc->sc_uarttype == COM_UART_16550A) { bus_space_write_1(iot, ioh, com_lcr, lcr | LCR_DLAB); if (bus_space_read_1(iot, ioh, com_efr) == 0) { bus_space_write_1(iot, ioh, com_efr, EFR_CTS); @@ -1647,7 +1651,8 @@ com_attach_subr(struct com_softc *sc) } #if 0 /* until com works with large FIFOs */ - if (sc->sc_uarttype == COM_UART_ST16650V2) { /* Probe for XR16850s */ + /* Probe for XR16850s */ + if (probe && sc->sc_uarttype == COM_UART_ST16650V2) { u_int8_t dlbl, dlbh; /* Enable latch access and get the current values. */ @@ -1670,7 +1675,8 @@ com_attach_subr(struct com_softc *sc) } #endif - if (sc->sc_uarttype == COM_UART_16550A) { /* Probe for TI16750s */ + /* Probe for TI16750s */ + if (probe && sc->sc_uarttype == COM_UART_16550A) { bus_space_write_1(iot, ioh, com_lcr, lcr | LCR_DLAB); bus_space_write_1(iot, ioh, com_fifo, FIFO_ENABLE | FIFO_ENABLE_64BYTE); @@ -1686,7 +1692,9 @@ com_attach_subr(struct com_softc *sc) /* Reset the LCR (latch access is probably enabled). */ bus_space_write_1(iot, ioh, com_lcr, lcr); - if (sc->sc_uarttype == COM_UART_16450) { /* Probe for 8250 */ + + /* Probe for 8250 */ + if (probe && sc->sc_uarttype == COM_UART_16450) { u_int8_t scr0, scr1, scr2; scr0 = bus_space_read_1(iot, ioh, com_scratch);