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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Luca <kronos@kronoz.cjb.net>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Linux Serial <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Garbage on serial console after serial driver loads
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:38:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050325203853.C12715@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050325202414.GA9929@dreamland.darkstar.lan>; from kronos@kronoz.cjb.net on Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:24:15PM +0100

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:24:15PM +0100, Luca wrote:
> I attached a null modem cable to my notebook and I'm seeing garbage as
> soon as the serial driver is loaded. I tried booting with init=/bin/bash
> to be sure that it's not some rc script doing strange things to the
> serial port, but this didn't solve the problem.

I'm uncertain how this problem can occur, unless you have one of:

* serial debugging enabled (which isn't compatible with serial console)
* a NS16550A, in which case dwmw2 needs to rework his autodetect code to
  adjust the baud rate appropriately.

I suspect your case is the latter.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-25 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-25 20:24 Garbage on serial console after serial driver loads Luca
2005-03-25 20:38 ` Russell King [this message]
2005-03-25 21:01   ` Luca
2005-03-26 10:16     ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-26 14:35       ` Luca
2005-03-26 15:10       ` Russell King
2005-03-26 15:55         ` Phil Oester
2005-03-26 16:37           ` Russell King
2005-03-26 17:19             ` Phil Oester
2005-03-26 17:22             ` Phil Oester
2005-04-13 12:45           ` Paul Slootman
2005-04-18 20:21             ` Phil Oester
2005-04-18 23:14             ` David Woodhouse
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-27 11:11 Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-28 17:36 Phil Oester
2005-03-28 19:02 ` Russell King
2005-03-28 23:57   ` Dave Airlie
2005-05-03 14:17   ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-03 15:04     ` Phil Oester
2005-05-03 15:11     ` Tom Rini
2005-05-03 15:23       ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-03 16:00         ` Tom Rini
2005-05-03 16:16       ` Tom Rini

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