hci_uart status and oddities

Hi,

[ACPI guys: please skip the first part]

I have a 3Com 3CRWB6096B Bluetooth PC Card (rev. 3) that sports 2 UARTs:
kernel: ttyS4 at I/O 0x100 (irq = 3) is a 16C950/954
kernel: ttyS5 at I/O 0x108 (irq = 3) is a 8250

The first thing I need to ask is: is it possible to obtain speeds higher than 115200 bps? hciattach /dev/ttyS4 csr 460800 succeeds, but hciconfig will just show zeros and the card would need replugging to work again.

The second thing I realized only recently, when I tried to determine why BT is so unreliable under 2.6. As it seems, this specific card is unable to work when the processor enters ACPI C3 state (a low power processor state with bus master arbitration disabled). The effect is lots of messages like:
h4_recv: Unknown HCI packet type 3e
or:
hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout

Once C3 is disabled (by any bus master activity, a plain USB mouse works), the card works fine. Since it's a PC Card, I'm at a loss at whether the card actually uses any DMA of some sort, or anything that could be remotely related to bus mastering. All that I know is that there is some hardware that has troubles with C3 (see ipw2100).

I'm CCing acpi-devel in hope that someone will be able to at least state whether it is a driver or a hardware problem. Or perhaps it is something specific to PC Cards or yenta in general?

Best regards,

Karol 'sziwan' Kozimor
[email protected]


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