cpm_uart console problems?

[Vitaly Bordug]

Tsang, Chi Kit wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am working on an 8260 based board and currently cannot get 
>the serial (running on SMC 1) to work using the 2.6.11 kernel. 
>The last message I see in my console is: "Now booting the 
>kernel".
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>I currently do not specify the "console=ttyCPM" in my boot command 
>line. Would this be an issue?
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Well, I think so. I don't have 8260 but with similar cpm2 board with
"console=ttyCPM0,115200 " parameter serial console works fine.

>I have tried to add "console=ttyCPM" to my boot command line but in 
>such cases, the kernel would fail to boot. Using some LEDs as debug, 
>I tracked down the hang which seems to happen during cpm_uart_console_write.
>This is as far as I got.
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Because there is no such console device...

>I am running with devfs enabled in the kernel. Does the cpm_uart 
>driver work with devfs?
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Yes, but not very good actually, as far as devfs seems to be
deprecated.  At least on my 8272ADS.

>As an aside, I have ported the 2.6.5 kernel to my 8260 based board and
>both ethernet (FCC 1) and serial (SMC 1) worked okay using this particular
>kernel.
>
>Any suggestions/ideas would be much appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Chi
>
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Sincerely,
Vitaly