From: Jim.Corbett@f35.n152.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Corbett) Subject: serial driver fixes for 0.98pl5 Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1992 01:56:00 -0800
> From: tytso@Athena.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
> I have still be receiving a few scattered reports of
> people who have
> been having problems with the Linux serial driver
> after 0.98pl1.
> off false IRQ's. So, I would appreciate it if people
> could try the new
> serial driver with both AUTO_IRQ and
> NEW_INTERRUPT_ROUTINE turned on.
I thought you might like a report, as it may be of use
in seeing the results of the patch.
The screen after booting with 0.98pl5 w/scsi and not-needed
mouse drivers removed before compiling the kernel.
LNX985b..................................................................
ttys0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttys1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450
ttys3 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 82508
virtual consoleslp_init: lp1 exists (0)
Microsoft Bus mouse detected and installed.
Memory: 15624k/16384k available (324k kernel, 384k reserved, 52k data)
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.2M, fd1 is 1.44M
sock_init: initializing family 1 (AF_UNIX)
hda : part 1 start 17 size 16983 end 16999
part 2 start 17000 size 70040 end 87039
hdb : part 1 start 1 size 84064 end 84064
Partition tables ok.
Linux version 0.98.pl5-14 (root@JCM-Linux) 11/17/92 02:55:52
This is Linux 0.98 SLS-JCM
JCM-Linux login: root
{root}/># setterm -dump
Screen after appling the serp98p5.pat