Re: IA64: Broken Serial Console

Horms
2006-06-04T04:57:11Z

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 05:53:59AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 08:48:06PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > I have noticed that the serial console on my ia64 machine seems
> > to have broken since 2.6.16. Thanks to git bisect I have been
> > able to track this problem down to 111c9bf8c5cfa92363b3719c8956d29368b5b9de
> >
> > [SERIAL] remove 8250_acpi (replaced by 8250_pnp and PNPACPI)
> >
> > With the combination of PNPACPI and 8250_pnp, we no longer need
> > 8250_acpi.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
> >
> > I haven't had time to look into the code and I have to leave
> > my desk shortly, so I thought I would post here to see if anyone
> > has any ideas.
>
> Well, does your config have PNPACPI and SERIAL_8250_PNP enabled?

Thanks, adding those options (obviously) solved the problem.

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