From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jay Cliburn Subject: Re: 2.6.25.3: serial problem (minicom) Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 08:22:07 -0500 Message-ID: <20080517082207.4b1e8556@osprey.hogchain.net> References: <20080516123321.5674952c@osprey.hogchain.net> <762763.57234.qm@web52903.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fmailhost01.isp.att.net ([204.127.217.101]:57800 "EHLO fmailhost01.isp.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753251AbYEQNWK (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2008 09:22:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <762763.57234.qm@web52903.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Rankin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 17 May 2008 13:29:31 +0100 (BST) Chris Rankin wrote: > --- Jay Cliburn wrote: > > Serial console using minicom works fine for me under 2.6.25 and > > 2.6.25.4. Keystrokes are accepted normally. > > I have just replicated this problem between two Fedora 8 boxes; > minicom reads the remote serial console fine, provided it is running > on a 2.6.24.x kernel. (The serial console is from a 2.6.25.4 machine.) > > My serial console is defined using the kernel parameters > "console=ttyS0,115200n8", and my minicom session as: > > pr port /dev/ttyS1 > pu baudrate 115200 > pu bits 8 > pu parity N > pu stopbits 1 > #pu minit ^M Mine still works. I was going to bisect it, but I don't encounter the problem. [jcliburn@sparrow ~]$ uname -a Linux sparrow 2.6.25.4 #1 SMP Fri May 16 11:31:19 CDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [jcliburn@sparrow ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) [jcliburn@sparrow ~]$ cat /etc/minirc.dfl # Machine-generated file - use "minicom -s" to change parameters. pu port /dev/ttyS0 pu baudrate 38400 pu bits 8 pu parity N pu stopbits 1 jcliburn@sparrow ~]$ grep CONFIG_SERIAL linux-2.6.25.y.git/.config CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PNP=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CS=m CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=32 CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS=4 CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS=y # CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_FOURPORT is not set # CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_ACCENT is not set # CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_BOCA is not set # CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_EXAR_ST16C554 is not set # CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_HUB6 is not set CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_SHARE_IRQ=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DETECT_IRQ=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RSA=y CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SERIAL_JSM=m