Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:20:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:20:39 -0400 Received: from anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.89]:65286 "EHLO anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:20:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:19:25 +0100 (BST) From: Steve Hill To: christophe =?iso-8859-1?Q?barb=E9?= cc: lkml Subject: Re: serial console and kernel 2.4 In-Reply-To: <20010730165453.A19255@pc8.lineo.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, christophe barb? wrote: > Is there something that I'm missing ? (something new with the kernel 2.4 > that is required for a serial console that was not required with the 2.2 ?) I've just started using 2.4.6 on both a Cobalt Qube 3 and Raq 4R (which use serial consoles), and they seem to be fine... although if the console isn't plugged in then it causes all sorts of problems so I've hacked around the kernel to allow the console to point at null... I'm just about to upgrade to 2.4.8-pre2 if it all works... -- - Steve Hill System Administrator Email: steve@navaho.co.uk Navaho Technologies Ltd. Tel: +44-870-7034015 ... Alcohol and calculus don't mix - Don't drink and derive! ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/