Bug 125016 – Hangs on startup after initialising 8250 on PowerMac

Bug 125016 - Hangs on startup after initialising 8250 on PowerMac

Summary:	Hangs on startup after initialising 8250 on PowerMac

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	powerpc Linux

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Assigned To:	Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2004-06-02 04:39 EDT by Alex Kiernan
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:10 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-08-11 04:04:20 EDT
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Description Alex Kiernan 2004-06-02 04:39:41 EDT

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Description of problem:
The supplied kernel config for the mac compiles in 8250 serial
support, on the machine I'm using (an early blue & white G4), this
causes the kernel to hang 9 times out of 10 just after it logs the
8250 startup line. Changing kernel-2.6.6-ppc.config to use:

CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=m

fixes the problem, but obviously stops use of any such device as a
boot time console (are there any such Macs?)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.6-1.406

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Hangs on boot
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Comment 1 Alex Kiernan 2004-08-11 04:04:20 EDT

Seems to have fixed itself in later kernels

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