[PATCH] Take two of the new serial uart driver.

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Jun 6 05:22:21 EST 2004


On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 10:12:24AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 17:13 +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > The following patch updates the new CPM1/CPM2 uart driver.
>
> It seems to lose queued characters from the kernel output when userspace
> /dev/console is first opened. Should you drain the FIFO before resetting
> the hardware on open? Or indeed refrain from resetting the hardware if
> you're not actually changing anything?

I haven't seen this problem on 8xx myself.

> This is with console on ttyCPM0 == SMC1. SysRq is also non-functional.

SysRq is fixed in the linuxppc-2.5 tree now.

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