> Serial consoles are already polled for output. So nothing should > care until userspace starts, and the full serial driver initializes.
At which point it hangs > So I suspect either "irqfixup" or "irqpoll" would handle this for you. > If not I am certain a small tweak to some of that code would work. irqfixup won't usually help but irqpoll with HZ=1000 ought to, although it has its own set of problems because not all devices with non shared IRQ lines take kindly to irqpoll. Alan