UART driver porting from 2.4.20 to 2.6.10 for freescale imx21ADS21 board.

Hi All,

I have Freescale's iMX21ADS board with linux 2.4.20 based BSP running on it. Freescale does not provide a 2.6 kernel based BSP for the hardware. So I am (trying ) porting the 2.6.10 vanilla kernel on the board. I have reached upto start_kernel() and 1t goes to console_init(). This in 2.4 used to initialize board's UART driver (mx2uart.c). When I try to put the 2.4 BSP's UART into the 2.6 kernel and try to compile I run into so many compilation errors. Basically it uses task queue and this is changed to work queue in 2.6

has anyone done similar work in the past? I am not clear about the concept of task queue and work queues. some of the task queues i may need to change to work queue are:
DECLARE_TASK_QUEUE(tq_serial);
mark_bh(SERIAL_BH);
run_task_queue(&tq_serial);

Hi All,

After looking into other serial drivers for reference, I finally did the required changes related to task queue / work queue and I compiled the kernel with mx2uart.c successfully.

Now the problem is, still I do not see any printks appearing on the console. I also tried putting printk in start_kernel() of my working 2.4.20 BSP and to my surprise, they also did not show up to the console, but they did come to dmesg.

Can anyone tell me what some quick pointers that I need to check to see those printks on the console?

Thanks
Ashish