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

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:01:08AM -0500, Alex deVries wrote:
> > 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?  

Serial always worked, as did serial console.  Only if you specified
`console=ttyS0' would the Bad Things happen, because the serial console
didn't do a proper initialisation, it just hoped.  Now, the serial console
initialisation is done after the serial driver starts up, so all the
initialisation is done properly first.

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

true... though i've never seen one.

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