Re: Serial console broken in 2.3.18

Thorsten Kranzkowski (th@Marvin.DL8BCU.ampr.org)
Wed, 29 Sep 1999 21:41:18 +0000

On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 05:20:29AM -0700, Tom Livingston wrote:
> I had the same experience with 2.3.18 and 2.3.18ac10. If serial console is
> enabled in kernel and with console flags, everything goes well printing
> console boot output to the serial port, until I get to here:
>
> > [kernel boot log, already in progress...]
> > Starting kswapd v1.6
> > Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
> > Serial driver version 4.30 with SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI PCI_IOMEM enabled
>
> After this point, nothing further is written to the serial port. In fact,
> once I've booted I can't send anything else to the serial port either.
>

I see the same on my Alpha AXPpci33:
Serial driver version 4.30 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI PCI_IOMEM enabled

Although I remember that my agetty managed to let me log in on ttyS0 after
the boot-process finished.

Interestingly setserial segfaults on any of my serial ports with 2.3.18(+acX).
With 2.3.10 it's ok.

> config is RH60 base, abit-bp6, dual c366 on board serial ports. Running
> SMP.

homemade distribution, AXPpci33, obviously UP :-), gcc 2.95, glibc 2.1.1,
14 serial ports.

Bye,
Thorsten

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