[PATCH] arm/tms570: sci context has to be writable because it holds state variable.

[Martin Galvan]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Martin Galvan
<martin.galvan at tallertechnologies.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Pavel Pisa <pisa at cmp.felk.cvut.cz> wrote:
>> The structure tms570_sci_context holds state variable
>> tx_chars_in_hw which holds if and how many characters
>> (in the optional FIFO support for some Ti SCIs) are submitted
>> into hardware.
>>
>> When field is not writable then code breaks when RTEMS
>> is build for Flash area.
>>
>> The problem found and analyzed by Martin Galvan from tallertechnologies.
>
> Thanks for the patch. In addition, we've developed a refactored
> version of the driver which, besides being const-correct, addresses a
> number of other issues present in the current driver. Namely, it
> improves the coding style, fixes what seems to be an erroneous check
> for ctx->regs->SCIRD != 0 and uses the correct formula for the SCI
> prescaler value. I'm attaching it here so that it can be commited
> before us and Premek add further changes.
>
> Notice, however, that my driver sets BSP_PLL_OUT_CLOCK to 180 MHz in
> bsp.h and divides it by 2 when it's setting the prescaler, so the
> value of VCLK for the formula is 90 MHz. This may vary from board to
> board (I noticed the original code used 160 MHz instead of 90); we
> used 90 MHz because it's what HALCoGen generates by default. Notice as
> well that this code still relies on the device having been set up
> already (as Pavel said, right now we're using HALCoGen-generated code
> for that).

It appears my mail client wrapped the lines after 80 characters, so
the patch won't apply if you copy it directly from the e-mail. I'm
attaching it here as a separate file. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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