Re: [PATCH 01/18] Virtex: Add uartlite bootwrapper driver

On 9/28/07, Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:

On Friday 28 September 2007, Grant Likely wrote:

quoted

+static void uartlite_putc(unsigned char c)
+{
+while ((in_be32(reg_base + 0x8) & 0x08) != 0); /* spin */
+out_be32(reg_base + 0x4, c);
+}

When coding a spin-loop, it's better to do a cpu_relax() between
each attempt.

Is cpu_relax even implemented in the bootwrapper?

g.

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