On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 09:36:52AM -0800, Phil Oester wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 03:10:05PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > > Doesn't matter. The problem is that dwmw2's NS16550A patch (from ages > > ago) changes the prescaler setting for this device so we can use the > > higher speed baud rates. This means any programmed divisor (programmed > > at early serial console initialisation time) suddenly becomes wrong as > > soon as we fiddle with the prescaler during normal UART initialisation > > time. > > Seems like you are correct, given the below patch fixes the garbage > output for me.
David, Is this patch ok for you? --- linux-standard/drivers/serial/8250.c 2005-03-02 02:37:47.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-dellfw/drivers/serial/8250.c 2005-03-28 12:28:34.560032856 -0500 @@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ serial_outp(up, UART_MCR, status1); if ((status2 ^ status1) & UART_MCR_LOOP) { -#ifndef CONFIG_PPC +#if 0 serial_outp(up, UART_LCR, 0xE0); status1 = serial_in(up, 0x04); /* EXCR1 */ status1 &= ~0xB0; /* Disable LOCK, mask out PRESL[01] */ -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/