[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I found that I had to back out the changes to serial.c and serial.h in
> the 2.4.3 kernel when using linuxbios on SMC FDC37N769 super-IO chips.
>
> The output works fine and polled input under linuxbios may also work
> fine (I don't recall) but linux would accept no input when I put a
> getty on the serial port.
>
> I'm assuming that the kernel changes are expecting more initialization
> of the chip than they did before and that the new kernel code works
> fine with a COTS bios.
What does COTS stand for?
> Has anyone happened to fix this yet? Has anyone else used a serial
> console under 2.4.3 and had either success or failure?
Hmm. I can report I am also seeing this with 2.4.4, on a board I'm
just starting to get linuxBIOS up on. And I have just tracked it
down. The kernel doesn't appear to set CREAD on a serial console so
it doesn't accept input.. So you need something better than mgetty
that will set CREAD.
That sounds like a silly policy to me, but it doesn't appear to be a
driver bug.
Eric
