On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 02:06, Rogier Krieger wrote: > The GENERIC kernel config has commented out com2 (at isa0, addr 0x3e8, > irq 5) and I assume this is not without reason. I've been unable to > find that reason in source changes, but perhaps someone here knows. On > i386, it is present.
I am guessing this is an oversight. i386 runs on the same machines, so if com2 were causing trouble it would be disabled there too.