Florian Lohoff wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:01:55PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > processes crash due to unaligned access/illegal instruction in
> > kernel space. The serial console drops characters on high
> > throughput.
I've tested the serial console now with 38400 baud also,
the characteristics of the dropouts didn't change.
> This is true for all sgis IMHO - I have seen this before on the
> Indy and Indigo2 - This is a bug in the sgiserial.c - I have tried
> to find it before but havent been successfull.
Well, then it's at least not a bug of mine. :-)
> Another bug lets
> the serial to freeze completely which prevents serial console
> machines from reboot as the and print to the console blocks.
>
> This has been fixed somewhere in the 2.4 area.
I haven't encountered this yet, so the fix seems to work for
64bit, too.
Thiemo
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