From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 22:21:16 +0000 Subject: Re: Fix staircase effect on Altix serial console. Message-Id: <20040303222116.GA5481@sgi.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:44:49PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:36:21PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > > I've filed a bug with our system controller group to make the behavior > > > of the L2 and L1 system controllers consistent (I believe you're using > > > an L1), which I think is the proper fix. > > > > No, it is the *wrong* thing to do. If you do stty -onlcr you should get > > just one NL, nothing else. It's the job of the tty layer and the serial > > console write function to translate NL to CRNL, nobody else should mangle > > the output in any way. > > Right, that's why I'm saying that the l2 shouldn't mangle output, nor > should the PROM. They should just pass through whatever the serial > driver hands them. I think we're in agreement here? Sorry, I should have been clearer: our L2 system controller will be fixed to *not* add CRs, as will our PROM, so we'll need your fix. David, can you please apply it? Sorry for the runaround. Andreas, does that sound right? Thanks, Jesse