Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] tty/serial: convert 8250 to generic earlycon

[Tony Luck]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Linus' tree (HEAD=963649d735c8) is spitting out all sorts of garbage
> on the serial console - as if the baud rate is being periodically set
> to something weird, and then back to 112500.  I see over a dozen
> blocks of junk interspersed with good output.

Ah - it seems that I need to be more specific on the cmdline

     console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,115200

makes all the garbage disappear.

Do I need to update: Documentation/ia64/serial.txt
which has the example of "console=uart,io,0x3f8"?

-Tony
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