serial: 8250: Document SMSC Super I/O UART peculiarities

Contrary to what SMSC documentation says and unlike NS16C550A UARTs the
SMSC Super I/O IC claims compatibility with the SMSC UART implementation
does not support dividing the internal PLL clock by any divisor from 1
to 65535[1], with the exception of two magic divisors of 32769 and 32770
used respectively to select the high-speed data rates of 460800bps and
230400bps[2] if enabled on a port-by-port basis in with the Serial Port
Mode Register in the Device Configuration Space[3][4].

Instead empirical evidence indicates that the divisor, as stored in the
DLL and DLM register pair, has the range of 1 to 32767 only, and bit 7
of the DLM register (bit 15 of the divisor) effectively serves as a
selection bit for the prescaler from the base frequency of 7.3728MHz,
either 4 if the bit is 0, or 1 if the bit is 1 and high-speed operation
has been enabled with the Serial Port Mode Register.

So if high-speed operation has not been enabled, then say the values of
1 and 32769 (0x8001) written into the combined DLL and DLM register pair
both select the divisor of 1 and the baud rate of 115200bps.

[1] "FDC37M81x, PC98/99 Compliant Enhanced Super I/O Controller with
    Keyboard/Mouse Wake-Up", Standard Microsystems Corporation, Rev.
    03/27/2000, Section "Programmable Baud Rate Generator (and Divisor
    Latches DLH, DLL)", p. 75

[2] same, Table 31 - "Baud Rates", p. 77

[3] same, Table 60 - "Serial Port 1, Logical Device 4 [Logical Device
    Number = 0x04]", p. 153

[4] same, Table 61 - "Serial Port 2, Logical Device 5 [Logical Device
    Number = 0x05]", p. 153

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.2106092330530.5469@angie.orcam.me.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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