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by eqvinox 411 days ago
My sweet summer child… this is backwards compatibility to the I/O register set of NatSemi/Intel's 8250 UART chip…

…from 1978.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/8250_UART

The definitions are correct, look up an 16550 datasheet if you want to lose some sanity :)

1 comments

Oh damn, thanks!