Re: [BUG] serial base baud misdetected in 2.6.27

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Nov 04 2008 - 14:22:57 EST


On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:24:45 -0600
"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> I'm running an ATCA7101 board. This board has two 16550 ports that get
> detected as ttyS4 and ttyS5.
>
> With a much earlier kernel (2.6.14) the serial port base speed is
> correctly detected as 230400, which gives the desired 115200 when I
> specify that on the kernel commandline.
>
> With 2.6.16 and 2.6.27 (not sure about the intervening kernels) the
> serial port base speed is detected as 921600, which means that I need to
> specify 460800 on the commandline to get a real speed of 115200 (as
> verified by an external terminal server).
>
> Any ideas what could be causing this misdetection? I'm having lab
> issues right now so I can't track it down, but I'll have a go at it
> eventually.

If this is a PCI card it may be matching against a PCI entry for a
similar card with different crystals and need the right svid/sdid adding.
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