I finally got linux to boot and display messages on
the serial console.
The problem was that in immap_8260.h
immap_t *immr;
was not extern and code in uart.c was getting a
garbage value for immr. I changed it to
extern immap_t *immr;
and I not receive console messages.
Best,
Craig MacDonald
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