linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Linux always started with 9600 8N1

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0705271909140.7344@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date:	Sun, 27 May 2007 19:09:43 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux always started with 9600 8N1


On May 27 2007 18:44, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>On May 26 2007 15:47, David Miller wrote:
>>> I have set the OBP to run at 115200, also set agetty on ttyS0 to do the 
>>> same, and also added console=ttyS0,115200 to silo.conf (and also tried 
>>> console=ttyS0,115200n8). But! Linux still gives me 9600 8N1. The ominous 
>>> double screen blanking (why is that done anyway?) already takes place 
>>> with 9600. I smell a bug. What do you think?
>>
>>The code in drivers/serial/suncore.c:sunserial_console_termios()
>>should be parsing your OBP settings, add some tracing and see why it
>>isn't working.
>>
>>Please track the bug down for us, thanks :-)
>
>Just why did no one get a kernel oops? After all, the code tried to
>write to constant memory.
>
>This is the first patch of two. There is yet another section of Linux 
>code that runs in 9600-only, and I need to figure out which.

Ok no second patch. The issue (double blanking at boot, which I presumed
also ran at 9600) was recently fixed too.


	Jan
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