Hi,

 Earlier this year I noticed the CBUS UART, a discrete TI16C550C part 
wired directly to the system controller's device bus and supposed to come 
up as ttyS2 in addition to ttyS0 and ttyS1 ports from a Super I/O device 
behind the PCI southbridge, is not recognised with my MIPS Malta board 
booting big-endian.

 I used to use it just fine, many many years ago, although in the board's 
little-endian configuration only, and then with a local patch to get it 
supported with Linux 2.4.x, which I didn't get to submitting however due 
to the turn of events back then.  Support was then added by someone else 
with 2.6.23.

 I got to the bottom of the problem now and as it turns out we have two 
long-standing bugs causing it, one in generic 8250 code and another in 
Malta platform code, and this has never worked in the big-endian mode.  
Evidently, this has never been verified, and I guess this is because back 
in the MIPS UK days we usually ran the boards in the little-endian mode.

 This pair of patches addresses these bugs individually.  See the 
respective change descriptions for details.

 Please apply.

  Maciej