On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Tony Luck [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Rob Herring [off-list ref] wrote:

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It should do auto detect of the baud-rate if it is not specified which
for 8250 is just reading the baud-rate divider and calculating the
baud-rate using the uart clock. It should just reprogram the divider
with the same divider value. I don't see anything obvious why this
would have broken.

Something very weird is happening.  Output is good so long as I put the
trailing ",115200" on the command line.

But I made early_serial8250_setup() printk() the return value it got
from probe_baud() - in case is was somehow getting 115201 or some
other silly value ... nope. Exactly 115200.

I also can't explain why the "noise" comes and goes a dozen
times during boot,

Does some other place in the kernel look at the "uart..." command
line argument?

Would you be using drivers/firmware/pcdp.c as that is ia64 only? That
shouldn't have an impact that I can see.

Can you print the options string in serial8250_console_setup? Maybe it
is getting lost when the real console is setup.

Rob