A follow up with additional information.
When the FSL USB driver is left as originally written, with the "request_mem_region" for the USB registers in the MPC8306, I see the following output (the "QQQ" line is my additional debugging):
Freescale High-Speed USB SOC Device Controller driver (Apr 20, 2007)
QQQ: fsl_udc_probe(2619) about to request mem region: start = 0xE0023000; end = 0xE0023FFF; size = 0x00001000; driver name=fsl-usb2-udc
udc: request mem region for fsl-usb2-udc failed
fsl-usb2-udc: probe of fsl-usb2-udc.0 failed with error -16
When I fixed our USB_RESET signal, I was able to use it as a host port, even with the mem failure about:
[root@mpc8306-mio /root]# usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using fsl-ehci and address 2
usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0403, idProduct=6001
usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-1: Product: US232R
usb 1-1: Manufacturer: FTDI
usb 1-1: SerialNumber: FTF2SSGO
ftdi_sio 1-1:1.0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter detected
usb 1-1: Detected FT232RL
usb 1-1: Number of endpoints 2
usb 1-1: Endpoint 1 MaxPacketSize 16384
usb 1-1: Endpoint 2 MaxPacketSize 16384
usb 1-1: Setting MaxPacketSize 64
usb 1-1: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0
But not as a device port:
[root@mpc8306-mio gadget]# insmod g_serial.ko
insmod: cannot insert 'g_serial.ko': No such device
However, when I take out that request_mem_region() call, things look promising. host mode still works and I'm able to install the gadget modules.
[root@mpc8306-mio gadget]# insmod g_serial.ko
g_serial gadget: Gadget Serial v2.4
g_serial gadget: g_serial ready
fsl-usb2-udc: bind to driver g_serial
When I then connect this to the PC (Win 7 64 bit), after a long time, I get an "Unrecognized device" error. I tried g_file_storage and g_mass_storage as well -- all with the same results. I tried installing the serial driver inf file located under the kernel's Documentation/usb, but Windows always refused to use it. Either claiming it didn't support right-click install or that the driver it was using was newer or not compatible (manual update).
When I look up the "Hardware IDs" for this Unknown Device in Windows, they are unknown. Suggesting to me that the values from the driver aren't getting across to Windows, but I don't know enough about how this works to debug it.