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2008-04-19 Thread Cron Daemon
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Re: [m5-dev] Re: console dying on switchover

2008-04-19 Thread nathan binkert
I've been digging and digging and digging and digging, and I think I'm getting closer to an answer. What I'm trying to figure out now is if output to the console is handled by a dedicated thread, or if it happens inline with printk. It looks like printk puts stuff in a buffer and then the

Re: [m5-dev] Re: console dying on switchover

2008-04-19 Thread Gabe Black
I think I at least figured out what's going on. The console isn't using interrupts from the UART to determine when to send the next character. It's polling the LSR register which is hardwired (in M5) to always say the UART is ready to go. What's actually happening, I think, is that when