Re: seriel console support broken in -mm4 and -mm5

From: Martin J. Bligh
Date: Mon Mar 29 2004 - 13:27:06 EST


> It works fine in -rc2.
>
> -mm4 prints jibberish (wrong speed / settings?) for serial console, but
> the getty stuff comes out file. shutdown just prints more jibberish.
>
> -mm5 prints about half as much jibberish as -mm4 then hangs, seemingly
> halfway through boot.
>
> I guess I'll try linus.patch from -mm4 next, unless you have any other
> suggestions that'd be more fruitful ...

OK, so -mm5 actually does the same as mm4 on my second try, so maybe the
hang is intermittent, or something.

However, linus.patch from -mm4 works fine, so the culprit is one of the
other patches in your tree ... any suggestions for which to shoot first? ;-)

M.

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