On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 04:43:22PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> Sorry, maybe this wasn't clear. My suggestion was not to just do this
> fix and call it done, but rather to add this check for sanity and then
> figure out how to properly handle this specific device.

Yes, I agree. Having it properly configured is preferred. Linux manages
to do that, but I'm not sure how exactly. But ...

> So adding the check here is not a workaround in order to support Intel
> LPSS, but rather a generic fix to ns16550 for an issue which happens
> to be triggered by Intel LPSS. We would still need to figure how to
> handle that specific Line value. I haven't looked at the docs, will do
> on Monday hopefully.

... having fallback to a poll mode is still better than crashing the
hypervisor or not using such console at all.

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab

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