[LinuxPPS] PPS and Coldfire UART

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:22:36AM -0300, Alex Guerra wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to PPS and was able to register the PPS line discipline with a 
> Coldfire UART (mcf driver). Even when the GPS is connected to the serial 
> interface pppstest  says that the source is ok but there's no PPS signal 
> (timeout). I've searched old posts and it seems that only some UARTS are 
> able to use this discipline, right?

You are right. See 8250.c in order to add PPS support to your serial
device.

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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