a) A brief name by which we can all refer to the patch.

quicc.pat

b) A description of what the patch achieves or the problem which it
addresses. No more than a few sentences.

As discussed just now on ecos-patches as per attached, the attached patch 
fixes spurious interrupts with serial on all quicc based targets when 
debugging over serial via GDB.

c) A rationale for including the patch in the 2.0 final release.

quicc-based targets will otherwise not be able to debug over serial when 
asserts are enabled. It is limited to quiccs.

Jifl
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