The ESCC datasheet states that SPEC_ALLSENT is always set in sync mode and set
in async mode once all characters have cleared the transmitter. Since writes to
SERIAL_DATA use a synchronous chardev API, the guest can never see the state when
transmission is in progress so it is possible to set SPEC_ALLSENT in the
R_SPEC register unconditionally.
This fixes a hang when using the Sun PROM as it attempts to enumerate the
onboard serial devices, and a similar hang in OpenBSD SPARC32 where in both cases
the boot process will not proceed until SPEC_ALLSENT has been set after writing
to W_TXCTRL1.
Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
Message-Id: <20211118181835.18497-3-mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
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