A PPC kernel issue with UART ??

Daniel Ann ktdann at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 15:15:45 EST 2005


A Ha. That's the question I've asked kumar earlier today. Having
inserted that myself it worked also. Still wondering why tho...

On 8/3/05, JohnsonCheng <johnsoncheng at qnap.com.tw> wrote:
> Actually, I had reviews all article about "serial console", just know I have
> to use LEVEL for interrupt, not EDGE. Unfortunately the default interrupt
> setting for kernel is with LEVEL, IRQ_SENSE_LEVEL, I think I don't need to
> modify it.
> But I found I add ASYNC_SKIP_TEST flag to UART in sandpoint.h can fix my
> problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> Johnson Cheng
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linuxppc-embedded-bounces at ozlabs.org
> [mailto:linuxppc-embedded-bounces at ozlabs.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Ann
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 8:22 AM
> To: JohnsonCheng
> Cc: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: A PPC kernel issue with UART ??
> 
> Johnson,
> 
> You know what? I've had the exact same problem only day or two ago. I
> think the mail subject was "serial console" or something similar. Have
> a read at it.
> 
> BTW, My problem was with interrupt setting.
> Daniel.
> 
> On 8/2/05, JohnsonCheng <johnsoncheng at qnap.com.tw> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> >
> >
> > I meet a wired UART problem on linux-2.6 with MPC8241 chip.
> >
> >
> >
> > My Environment is as following:
> >
> > CPU: MPC8241
> >
> > Linux: 2.6.12.3
> >
> > COM1 offset: 0x4500, COM2 offset: 0x4600
> >
> >
> >
> > When I booting my rootfs, it hangs at following message:
> >
> > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> >
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> >
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 104k init
> >
> > EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
> >
> >
> >
> > I had add printk in tty_write() of drivers/char/tty_io.c, the message from
> > rootfs have printed.
> >
> > The conclusion is that message can be printed by printk() in linux kernel,
> > but can't be printed by printf() in user mode. I think it must be
> something
> > wrong for my UART configurations, does anybody know it??
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Johnson Cheng
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> >
> 
> 
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