* Prarit Bhargava [off-list ref] wrote:

If I disable "Serial Port Console Debug" in my BIOS I still see the SPCR configured:

[root at prarit-lab ~]# dmesg | grep SPCR
[    0.000000] ACPI: SPCR 0x0000000069031000 000050 (v01
00000000      00000000)

AFAICT the SPCR is always enabled on some systems.

Fair enough.

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If so then we should pick up that serial console configuration and activate it, 
regardless of any kernel boot options!

I'm worried about someone who doesn't want a console on ttyS0 suddenly ending up
with one.  The SPCR could contain incorrect data, etc.

Yeah, that's not good.

Thanks,

	Ingo