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[POWERPC] Uartlite: speed up console output

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Change the wait_tx routine to call cpu_relax() instead of udelay() to
reduce console output latency and test for the TXFULL bit instead of
TXEMPTY.  That way the FIFO doesn't need to by 100% flushed before
writing the next character.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Grant Likely
2007-10-23 14:27:46 +10:00
committed by Josh Boyer
parent 7ae0fa49c6
commit 1d6b698764
1 changed files with 6 additions and 4 deletions
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@@ -329,12 +329,14 @@ static struct uart_ops ulite_ops = {
static void ulite_console_wait_tx(struct uart_port *port) static void ulite_console_wait_tx(struct uart_port *port)
{ {
int i; int i;
u8 val;
/* wait up to 10ms for the character(s) to be sent */ /* Spin waiting for TX fifo to have space available */
for (i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++) {
if (readb(port->membase + ULITE_STATUS) & ULITE_STATUS_TXEMPTY) val = readb(port->membase + ULITE_STATUS);
if ((val & ULITE_STATUS_TXFULL) == 0)
break; break;
udelay(1); cpu_relax();
} }
} }