Device Tree vs. Device drivers

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Fri Jul 18 13:05:20 EDT 2014


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Bruce Dawson <jbd at codemeta.com> wrote:

> Does anyone have experience with device drivers and how they interact
> with the new Device Tree methodology?
>
> I've got a project using a BeagleBoneBlack and need to modify the serial
> driver (6530/16550A) for some *very* time critical applications. Plus, I
> haven't played with the serial driver (or many others) since Linux 0.92
> and 1.2.xx.
>
> Things have changed a lot, and I'm just looking for some
> guidance/mentor.
>

  I'm not sure you're going to get any speed improvements into the uart
drivers since Intel revamped them to handle DMA and the such..

  What kind of changes are you talking about?

-- 
-- Thomas
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