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Comment by bobmcnamara

2 months ago

> Why are receive and transmit buffer the same?

Backwards compatibility aside, why bother implementing additional register address decoding? Since the host already doesn't need to read THR or write RBR they can be safely combined. Some UARTs call this a DATA register instead.

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