Mxuart patch

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This patch implements (or exposes) routines to poll the imx uarts. The KGDB drivers need these methods to be implemented or the ttymxc driver is not sufficient. The synthetic CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL value activates these routines (or CONFIG_SERIAL_MXC_CONSOLE for the polled write). There is still no poll routines in -855-ge067785, which is the September 2010 Linux release from Freescale. Also not in Linux 2.6.36 drivers/serial/imx.c either.

$ git diff drivers/serial/mxc_uart.c 
diff --git a/drivers/serial/mxc_uart.c b/drivers/serial/mxc_uart.c 
index ae6d2e1..728b607 100644 
--- a/drivers/serial/mxc_uart.c 
+++ b/drivers/serial/mxc_uart.c 
@@ -1551,6 +1551,28 @@ mxcuart_pm(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int state, unsigned int oldstate) 
                            clk_enable(umxc->clk); 
   }  +#ifdef CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL 
+/* 
+ * Read a character from the UART. 
+ */ 
+static inline int mxcuart_console_read_char(struct uart_port *port) 
+{ 
+       volatile unsigned int status; 
+    int ch; 
+ 
+       do { 
+               status = readl(port->membase + MXC_UARTUSR2); 
+       } while ((status & MXC_UARTUSR2_RDR) == 0); 
+       ch = readl(port->membase + MXC_UARTURXD); 
+/* Ignore parity errors, etc. */ 
+/*  status = ch | UART_CREAD_BIT; */ 
+    ch &= 0xff; 
+ 
+    return ch; 
+} 
+static void mxcuart_console_write_char(struct uart_port *port, char ch); 
+#endif 
+ 
   /*! 
    * This structure contains the pointers to the control functions that are 
    * invoked by the core serial driver to access the UART hardware. The 
@@ -1575,14 +1597,18 @@ static struct uart_ops mxc_ops = { 
                .config_port = mxcuart_config_port, 
                .verify_port = mxcuart_verify_port, 
                .send_xchar = mxcuart_send_xchar, 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL 
+              .poll_put_char = mxcuart_console_write_char, 
+              .poll_get_char = mxcuart_console_read_char, 
+#endif 
};  

-#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_MXC_CONSOLE 
+#if defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_MXC_CONSOLE) || defined (CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL)  

   /* 
    * Write out a character once the UART is ready 
    */ 
-static inline void mxcuart_console_write_char(struct uart_port *port, char ch) 
+static void mxcuart_console_write_char(struct uart_port *port, char ch) 
   { 
           volatile unsigned int status;  

@@ -1592,6 +1618,10 @@ static inline void mxcuart_console_write_char(struct uart_port *port, char ch) 
               writel(ch, port->membase + MXC_UARTUTXD); 
    }  

+#endif 
+ 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_MXC_CONSOLE 
+ 
   /*! 
    * This function is called to write the console messages through the UART port. 
    *