>Hmmm, turning off CONFIG_SERIAL_ECHO also seems to make the boot-time
>crashes go away. Does this mean there is a flaw in CONFIG_SERIAL_ECHO, or
>just something wrong with the serial port on this box? ttyS0 does have a
>MouseSystems mouse on it (the PS/2 mouse is also there because the Compaq
>BIOS has no way to disable it).
>
>It also seems the scrolling with this option on is slower on the Compaq
>6000 than it is on more sensible generic PCs I have at home. And there
>were also interesting complaints about keyboard timeouts as I reported in
>my previous message.
I suppose CONFIG_SERIAL_ECHO will be an option but is not yet inserted in
the kernel configuration so people has to set it by hand Y or N.
It' s normal that all goes slow and stalls if you have some device
connected to the serial port.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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