[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On 30 Apr, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >> Has anyone happened to fix this yet? Has anyone else used a serial
> >> console under 2.4.3 and had either success or failure?
> >
> > Hmm. I can report I am also seeing this with 2.4.4, on a board I'm
> > just starting to get linuxBIOS up on. And I have just tracked it
> > down. The kernel doesn't appear to set CREAD on a serial console so
> > it doesn't accept input.. So you need something better than mgetty
> > that will set CREAD.
> >
> > That sounds like a silly policy to me, but it doesn't appear to be a
> > driver bug.
>
> So this seems to be a change in kernel policy that is interacting with
> my getty rather than a problem with linuxbios?
It looks like it. I'm having trouble tracking it. I have traced it as far as:
1) The kernel sets CREAD just fine.
2) init clears CREAD (and always has)
I don't know who should reenable it.
Eric
