Re: serial console problem with kernel 3.18.0-rc4

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Wed, 2014-12-31 at 17:33 -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> I confirm this behaviour on the Mako system as well.  In my case, 3.18
> so royally screws up the serial port that even a power cycle won't
> recover the console connection to the MP (a sort of parisc equivalent of
> a BMC) and I have to go down to the machine room to physically yank the
> power from the system to power down the MP and get the console back.

For those in parisc land following along, I've discovered that a remote
power down followed by a diagnostic reset of the MP will reconnect the
console, thus obviating trips to unplug the actual system.

James