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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sysrq on serial console
Date: 27 Sep 2002 17:29:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <an2t5m$rto$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3D94ED88.5040407@us.ibm.com

Followup to:  <3D94ED88.5040407@us.ibm.com>
By author:    Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Since the serial cleanups happened in 2.5, Magic Sysrq doesn't work 
> for me on the serial console.
> 

It's been broken for me in several 2.4 versions as well.  This is
highly troublesome.

> It looks like the UART_LSR_BI bit needs to be set in the status 
> variable for the break character to be interpreted as a break in the 
> driver.
> 
> I doubt that it is actually broken,  but it isn't immediately obvious 
> how that bit gets set.  Is there something that I should have set when 
> the device was initialized to make sure that UART_LSR_BI is asserted 
> in "status" when the interrupt occurs?
-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-28  0:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-27 23:45 sysrq on serial console Dave Hansen
2002-09-28  0:29 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-09-28  8:06 ` Russell King

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