[parisc-linux] configuration problems with cvs from 20001216 15:40 CET

[Alex deVries]

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:39:34PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> > It seems the "console=ttyS0" is the reason for the crash. To be sure, I
> > have taken a fresh kernel tree (checkout from today) and compiled the
> > kernel with the default configuration. It worked...
> 
> specifying `console=ttyS0' before the checkin i recently did would
> definitely have caused exactly that crash.  it was trying to do an outb
> because the serial driver wasn't properly configured.  since no 715 has
> PCI, outb crashed & burned.

Has that been fixed now?  Should serial on a 715/old work?  

(Also, you can have a 715 with a PCI bus if you have a GSC add on card)

- Alex

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