Ben Hewson wrote:
> The code was enabling interrupts for the serial port, possibly causing
> random hangs on boot.
> I have replaced the 8250 initialisation code with that in uart8250.c
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> Signed-off-by: Ben Hewson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Doh !
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> This seems to work ok for me, but I can't say for sure if it has stopped
> the random boot hangs,
> as they were/are a bit random.
>
forget the patch. I have removed the uart init code from 
vt8231_early_serial.c and as expected everything still works as before. 
I will redo the patch tomorrow to remove the relevant lines.

on the down side I am still experiencing the odd random hang and power 
off still does not work with ACPI only compiled into the kernel.






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