serial module in 2.3.x?

serial module in 2.3.x?

[Andreas Tobler]

Hi,
has anybody seen the same? I'd like to include the serial.o module into
recent kernels (2.3.x). No luck, I always get a machine check. I'm not
sure where it is.
This happens up to 2.3.50-pre2. I suppose it has to do with the
SHARE_IRQ etc.
Any ideas?

Thanks
Andreas

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Re: serial module in 2.3.x?

[David Riley]

Andreas Tobler wrote:
>
> Some follow up,
>
> I hang in the procedure autoconfig from serial.c, I get out the msg.
> 'Testing ttysx'.
> this happens on a wallstreet & on a pm7200.
> It takes a lot of time to find out where, since each freeze needs about
> 10' to reboot (fsck)
>
> Thanks for any hint!!
>
> Andreas Tobler wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > has anybody seen the same? I'd like to include the serial.o module into
> > recent kernels (2.3.x). No luck, I always get a machine check. I'm not
> > sure where it is.
> > This happens up to 2.3.50-pre2. I suppose it has to do with the
> > SHARE_IRQ etc.
> > Any ideas?
>
> Andreas

Isn't serial.c for the Intel-compatible serial ports (like the 16550's
on most PC's)?  I think you might want macserial.c.  Back in my early
Linux days, I used to try to include "dumb" serial ports, but it always
crashed because I should have done "Powermac serial ports".  Did they
try to merge sources?

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Re: serial module in 2.3.x?

[Andreas Tobler]

Some follow up,

I hang in the procedure autoconfig from serial.c, I get out the msg.
'Testing ttysx'.
this happens on a wallstreet & on a pm7200.
It takes a lot of time to find out where, since each freeze needs about
10' to reboot (fsck)

Thanks for any hint!!

Andreas Tobler wrote:
>
> Hi,
> has anybody seen the same? I'd like to include the serial.o module into
> recent kernels (2.3.x). No luck, I always get a machine check. I'm not
> sure where it is.
> This happens up to 2.3.50-pre2. I suppose it has to do with the
> SHARE_IRQ etc.
> Any ideas?

Andreas

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Re: serial module in 2.3.x?

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 11:17:40PM +0100, Andreas Tobler wrote:

> Some follow up,
>
> I hang in the procedure autoconfig from serial.c, I get out the msg.
> 'Testing ttysx'.
> this happens on a wallstreet & on a pm7200.
> It takes a lot of time to find out where, since each freeze needs about
> 10' to reboot (fsck)

Well, don't do that.  serial.o (from drivers/char/serial.c) is for PC-style
serial ports.  What you want to say Y to is CONFIG_MAC_SERIAL, or there abouts.

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Re: serial module in 2.3.x?

[Andreas Tobler]

Additional follow up,
I enabled the xmon without video driver enabled:

It works but, I can't see the output, only the line breaks. Means, if I
type 't' for bt I get some line breaks but no screen output.
This is done under 2.3.50-pre2, which is the same, more or less as
2.3.49 from bk.
The behaviour of not showing me the xmon output I saw under 2.3.48 lc,
bk and stock.

Andreas Tobler wrote:
>
> Some follow up,
>
> I hang in the procedure autoconfig from serial.c, I get out the msg.
> 'Testing ttysx'.
> this happens on a wallstreet & on a pm7200.
> It takes a lot of time to find out where, since each freeze needs about
> 10' to reboot (fsck)
>
> Thanks for any hint!!
>
> Andreas Tobler wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > has anybody seen the same? I'd like to include the serial.o module into
> > recent kernels (2.3.x). No luck, I always get a machine check. I'm not
> > sure where it is.
> > This happens up to 2.3.50-pre2. I suppose it has to do with the
> > SHARE_IRQ etc.
> > Any ideas?
>
> Andreas

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Re: serial module in 2.3.x?

[Andreas Tobler]

Tom Rini wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 11:17:40PM +0100, Andreas Tobler wrote:
>
> > Some follow up,
> >
> > I hang in the procedure autoconfig from serial.c, I get out the msg.
> > 'Testing ttysx'.
> > this happens on a wallstreet & on a pm7200.
> > It takes a lot of time to find out where, since each freeze needs about
> > 10' to reboot (fsck)
>
> Well, don't do that.  serial.o (from drivers/char/serial.c) is for PC-style
> serial ports.  What you want to say Y to is CONFIG_MAC_SERIAL, or there abouts.
>

Well, it worked under 2.2.x, I need it for PCMCIA/CARDUS 'register
serial/unregister serial....' at least..


Thx
Andreas

Or, how do you enable pcmcia stuff??

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Re: serial module in 2.3.x?

[Dan Bethe]

> It takes a lot of time to find out where, since each freeze needs
> about
> 10' to reboot (fsck)

	You might see how much of your storage you can mount read-only, if you
know it's unstable.  Then there'll be no fsck needed  ;->
	There's a true Wintel-style workaround mentality for ya!

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