[uClinux-dev] Enable the 3rd UART port on 5329EVB

[Greg Ungerer]

Hi Allen,

Allen Yang wrote:
> Microprocessor MCF5329 on ColdFire 5329EVB has 3 UART ports. However,
> the uClinux 2.6.17-uc1 kernel only support 2 UART ports: UART 0 and UART
> 1. I am wondering if it's easy to enable the 3rd UART port in the
> kernel.

Yes, it should be easy to do.
The basic support will just be adding another table entry into
the "mcfrs_table" array in linux-2.6.x/drivers/serial/mcfserial.c.
More recent versions of this have it.

Regards
Greg



> Has anybody here enabled the 3rd UART port ColdFire 5329EVB?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Allen Yang
> 

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