Serial port driver needed for Oxford Semi UART 16950

[scottmc]

This is a mini-pci card that uses an Oxford Semiconductor UART to add 4 serial ports, it just needs a driver.

From listdev:

vendor 1415: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd device 9510: 0x16PCI954 (quad 16950 UART) function 1 (Disabled)

vendor 1415: Oxford Semicondutor Ltd device 950c: Unknown

[bonefish]

Do we really need unsupported hardware in Trac? Haiku doesn't (and probably never will) support thousands of hardware devices. I don't really see the point in cluttering the bug tracker.

[scottmc]

This can be moved to low priority and dropped from R1 milestone as it's not a requirement, just a "would be nice to have".

[mmu_man]

Well I fixed the pc_serial driver to use the tty module, it mostly works now, but it fails on the oxford semi PCI card I have here as well. It seems at least the clock must be set for it to work.

[scottmc]

I still have access to this mini-pci card so if/when it gets fixed I can try it out. I have a second mini-pci card that uses the same oxford semi chip to interface to a gps module which just continuously spits out the NMEA gps data.

[scottmc]

I have passed this hardware over to korli.

[korli]

I have passed this hardware over to pulkomandy.

[scottmc]

ok, cool. The GPS card also used the same chipset IIRC. And as such just keeps spitting out the NEMA data once per second. Those are mini-pci cards and should also work in some laptops, mostly older ones though as new ones seem to have different interfaces now.