Re: 2.5.64 - xircom realport no workie well

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:20:36AM +1100, CaT wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:09:45PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:47:46AM +1100, CaT wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:29:04PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > > > Can you check whether the attached patch fixes this for you?  It's more
> > > 
> > > Started compiling it and it just bombed out:
> > > 
> > > drivers/serial/8250_pci.c:1920: `PCI_DEVICE_ID_XIRCOM_RBM56G' undeclared
> > > here (not in a function)
> > > drivers/serial/8250_pci.c:1920: initializer element is not constant
> > > drivers/serial/8250_pci.c:1920: (near initialization for
> > > `serial_pci_tbl[86].device')
> > 
> > Bah.  You need this as well then:
> 
> Applied. It compiles now. Did a reboot into the new kernel and it hangs
> somewhere in the point where it blanks the display but before it
> switches to the framebuffer to display the kernel output messages (hope
> that helps). I have no oops or anything. Just a blank display and no
> disc activity or anything. ctrl-alt-del don't work and I have to turn my
> laptop off in order to reboot.

Hmm.  Did you build 8250 into the kernel, or as a module?  TBH, I'm not
sure how this could have affected the framebuffer driver.  I'll look
harder in a couple of hours though.

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