Re: Garbage on serial console after serial driver loads

[Russell King]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:24:15PM +0100, Luca wrote:
> I attached a null modem cable to my notebook and I'm seeing garbage as
> soon as the serial driver is loaded. I tried booting with init=/bin/bash
> to be sure that it's not some rc script doing strange things to the
> serial port, but this didn't solve the problem.

I'm uncertain how this problem can occur, unless you have one of:

* serial debugging enabled (which isn't compatible with serial console)
* a NS16550A, in which case dwmw2 needs to rework his autodetect code to
  adjust the baud rate appropriately.

I suspect your case is the latter.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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