From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: serial8250 madness
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:50:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <497A034F.6060303@caviumnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <497A0164.90409@walrond.org>
Andrew Walrond wrote:
> Is anyone active in the serial code?
>
Yes.
> [...]
>
> The Machines are all amd64, various motherboards, identical distros
> using 2.6.28.1 kernel.
> Either I have a particularly motley collection of kit, or the serial
> code is in a pretty bad way.
>
I use serial consoles on a variety of embedded boards every day (albeit
mostly mips based) ,so I think it works.
You do have to have your kernel configured properly for a serial console
for it to work right.
I would test it using some other device as the console. Only once you
have it working try for the serial console.
David Daney
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-23 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-23 17:41 serial8250 madness Andrew Walrond
2009-01-23 17:50 ` David Daney [this message]
2009-01-23 18:05 ` Andrew Walrond
2009-01-23 18:12 ` David Daney
2009-01-23 18:39 ` Andrew Walrond
2009-01-23 18:00 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-23 19:05 ` Andrew Walrond
2009-01-23 23:13 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-24 15:12 ` Clark Williams
2009-01-23 18:24 ` Bruce Ashfield
2009-01-24 12:06 ` Andrew Walrond
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