Re: 8250 serial console fixes -- issue

[Kumar Gala]

On Feb 1, 2006, at 7:47 PM, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Mer, 2006-02-01 at 19:21 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > This patch introduces an issue for me an embedded PowerPC SoC  
> > using the
> > 8250 driver.
> >
> > The simple description of my issue is this:  I'm using the serial  
> > port for
> > both a terminal and console.  I run fdisk on a /dev/hda.  Before this
> > patch I would get the prompt for fdisk immediately.  After this  
> > patch I
> > have to hit return before the prompt is displayed.
> >
> > I know that's not a lot of info, but just let me know what else  
> > you need
> > to help debug this.
> >
> > I'm guessing something about the UARTs on the PowerPC maybe bit a  
> > little
> > non-standard.
>
> I wonder if I've swapped one race for another. Can you revert just the
> line which forces THRI on and test with the rest of the change please.

This doesn't seem to help.

- kumar
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