Linux 8250/16550 UART Serial Driver Seeing Some Modernization Work In 2026

Michael Larabel

from Phoronix on 2026-06-23 10:35 (#76GAB)

The Linux 8250 serial driver as the universal/legacy driver for 8250 and 16550 type serial ports has been seeing some modernization work recently with a number of 8250 serial patches having now been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel...

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