RE: Strange output on the console

[David Laight]

From: Steven Rostedt
> Sent: 25 February 2022 04:01
> 
> I've been noticing that my tests have been spitting out strange output on
> the console. It would happen at boot up and then clear up. It looks like
> something screwed up with the serial timing.
> 
> Attached is a dmesg of one of my test runs as an example.
> 
> I've noticed this on both 32 bit and 64 bit x86.
> 
> I haven't had time to look deeper into this, but I figured I let you know
> about it.
> 
> And it always seems to happen right after:
> 
>   Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
> 
> Maybe this is a serial issue and not a printk one? :-/

Looks very much like the serial baud rate is being reset.

	David

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