Software :: Power PC PSC UART Kernel Object Just Not Working?

This has got me stumped to the point where I have spent 5 days with little sleep trying to find what I did wrong. It should be simple yet it doesn't work. All I want to do is create a test /dev/fred device driver that will allow me to test my hardware, all I want to do is transmit some bytes out PSC5. It *should* be a simple matter:

1) Make sure PSC5's PADs are configured for Function 0, DS of 1
2) Make sure SCCR1 has PSC4, 5, and 6 ENABLED
3) Configure the PSC's registers for UART mode, transmit/receive enable, all that happy stuff.
4) Have an open, close, read, write, ioctl function

What happens is that everything hangs together just fine, when I open(/dev/fred) my open_iproc_psc6_uart2() gets called and everything gets configured -- I request memory, remap it, release memory as needed. When write(/dev/fred) is called, my driver's ech_write() is called and when read(/dev/fred) is called, my ech_read() driver function gets called -- great stuff, it should be *easy*.

The problem is, I get nothing out the transmit pin of the PSC. if I missed a configuration register some where? A clock I need to set? I'll have to sleep on this and maybe inpiration will come but this is such a simple thing I'm trying to do, it should work. In fact I compare my code against three examples on the Internet and it looks functionally the same. Code with debugging / un-needed stuff added to try to figure out whyt nothing comes out the serial transmit pin:

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
// This is a device driver that creates /dev/fred and is used to send
// and receive serial data on PSC6. It's just a test driver, something

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