In message <004B1D7A5257174C9044A1B7BD0E60ED0178CC4F at
ratatosk.combitechsystems.com> you wrote:
>
> I'm messing with a mpc823e based board trying to enable the SCC3 UART. I'm
> using the 2.4.25 denx linux_ppc kernel and I've got SMC1 for console and SMC2
> up and running but I'm in desperate need of another rs232 port (which is on
> SCC3 on my board).
> Reading quite a lot of old posts on this mailing list got me confused whether
> the SCCx UART support in the kernel is ready to be used on 8xx or if there
> will take a large amount of hacking to get things going (reading the header
> of 8xx_io/uart.c got me
> wondering even more).
All UARTS (up to 2 x SMC + 4 x SCC, depending on CPU model) can be
used with our tree, including hardware handshake.
> I've read some posts saying that Linux don't init other uart ports than the
> console port and that is the potential problem here, but it is unclear if
> this statement is true or not. I can also add to the problem description that
> my SMC2 port works fine f
> or writing, but reading just hangs in the read() call. So, can anyone confirm
> any status on the SMCx and SCCx UART drivers for 2.4?
Works fine on all board supported by us.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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