Tsang, Chi Kit wrote: >Hi, > >I am working on an 8260 based board and currently cannot get >the serial (running on SMC 1) to work using the 2.6.11 kernel. >The last message I see in my console is: "Now booting the >kernel". > > > >I currently do not specify the "console=ttyCPM" in my boot command >line. Would this be an issue? > > > Well, I think so. I don't have 8260 but with similar cpm2 board with "console=ttyCPM0,115200 " parameter serial console works fine.
>I have tried to add "console=ttyCPM" to my boot command line but in >such cases, the kernel would fail to boot. Using some LEDs as debug, >I tracked down the hang which seems to happen during cpm_uart_console_write. >This is as far as I got. > > > Because there is no such console device... >I am running with devfs enabled in the kernel. Does the cpm_uart >driver work with devfs? > > > Yes, but not very good actually, as far as devfs seems to be deprecated. At least on my 8272ADS. >As an aside, I have ported the 2.6.5 kernel to my 8260 based board and >both ethernet (FCC 1) and serial (SMC 1) worked okay using this particular >kernel. > >Any suggestions/ideas would be much appreciated. > >Thanks, >Chi > > > -- Sincerely, Vitaly
