Re: [PATCH] Enable console on PCI serial devices
From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Tue Oct 21 2008 - 18:08:20 EST
On Tuesday 21 October 2008 02:08:41 pm n0ano@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Start an early, polled-mode console on the 8250/16550
> UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address,
> switching to the matching ttyS device later. The
> - options are the same as for ttyS, above.
> + "options" are the same as for ttyS, above. "base"
> + is base baud, defaults to 115200, which is used to
> + calculate the divisor for the crystal frequency
> + (typically this is the fastest baud rate supported
> + by the uart).
>
Down to nits now :-) That last sentence would be clearer to me if it
said '(typically "base" is the fastest baud rate supported by the UART).'
I capitalized UART to match the one earlier.
Bjorn
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