From: dth@ncc1701.cistron.net (Danny ter Haar)
Subject: Re: Linux serial console patch
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:32:27 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Cistron
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James Courtier-Dutton  <James@superbug.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> I have read your posts to lkml containing your serial console flow control
>> patches firstly for 2.4.x and then for 2.6.x kernels.
>
>Does this fix junk being output from the serial console?
>If one is using Pentium 4 HT, it seems that both CPU cores try to send 
>characters to the serial port at the same time, resulting in lost 
>characters as one CPU over writes the output from the other.

We have multiple P4-HT enabled servers with debian installed & serial
console enabled (RPB++ ;-) and _i_ have never seen this behaviour.

Danny

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