Re: [PATCH] 8250: Hypervisors always export working 16550A UARTs.

From	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] 8250: Hypervisors always export working 16550A UARTs.
Date	2016-04-29 01:00 +0200
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:18:33PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Currently autoconf spends 25ms (on my laptop) testing if the UART
> exported to it by KVM is an 8250 without FIFO and/or with strange
> quirks, which it obviously isn't.  Assume it is exported to us by a
> hypervisor, it's a normal, working 16550A.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> index 00ad2637..de19924 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> @@ -1171,6 +1171,13 @@ static void autoconfig(struct uart_8250_port *up)
>  	if (!port->iobase && !port->mapbase && !port->membase)
>  		return;
>  
> +	/* Hypervisors always export working 16550A devices. */
> +	if (cpu_has_hypervisor) {
> +		up->port.type = PORT_16550A;
> +		up->capabilities |= UART_CAP_FIFO;
> +		return;
> +	}

Have you audited vmware, virtualbox, and everyone else that provides a
virtual uart device that it will work properly here?

qemu isn't all the world :)

thanks,

greg k-h

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[PATCH] 8250: Hypervisors always export working 16550A UARTs. "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> - 2016-04-29 00:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] 8250: Hypervisors always export working 16550A UARTs. Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-04-29 01:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] 8250: Hypervisors always export working 16550A UARTs. "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> - 2016-04-29 10:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] 8250: Hypervisors always export working 16550A UARTs. Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-04-29 17:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] 8250: Hypervisors always export working 16550A UARTs. "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> - 2016-04-29 17:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] 8250: Hypervisors always export working 16550A UARTs. Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-04-29 18:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] 8250: Hypervisors always export working 16550A UARTs. "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> - 2016-04-29 18:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] 8250: Hypervisors always export working 16550A UARTs. Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-04-29 19:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] 8250: Hypervisors always export working 16550A UARTs. Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com> - 2016-04-29 20:20 +0200

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