Re: serial8250 madness

[David Daney]

Andrew Walrond wrote:
> Is anyone active in the serial code?

Yes.

> [...]
>
> The Machines are all amd64, various motherboards, identical distros 
> using 2.6.28.1 kernel.
> Either I have a particularly motley collection of kit, or the serial 
> code is in a pretty bad way.

I use serial consoles on a variety of embedded boards every day (albeit 
mostly mips based) ,so I think it works.

You do have to have your kernel configured properly for a serial console 
for it to work right.

I would test it using some other device as the console.  Only once you 
have it working try for the serial console.

David Daney
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