Understand and implement a NBCON compliant console driver (study purposes)
an invention by mpdesouza
Updated about 1 month ago. No love. 1 follower.

Description

The 8250 NBCON patch is being reviewed on upstream, so in order to understand the constraints of the NBCON with Preempt-RT just implement an example driver to understand how it works.

Goals

Have a console driver that complies with Preempt-RT/NBCON

Resources

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/Zxuj8rFQikEjr2gR@smile.fi.intel.com/T/#t

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  • 2 months ago: mpdesouza started this project.
  • 2 months ago: mpdesouza originated this project.


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    • mpdesouza
      about 1 month ago by mpdesouza | Reply

      In the end I worked on improving the printk code related to suspend/resume, plus removing the CON_ENABLED console flag. The project wasn't finished, but the WIP can be checked here:

      https://github.com/marcosps/linux/tree/b4/printk-sus-res-enhancement

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