Could you be sure no Xon / Xoff like protocol is active?
I do not know the coldfire, but I suppose that this not properly an HW problem.
Did you try to write a very simple program writing continuosly a sting of char 
over the serrial console and looking at its behaviour?
In the way you  should investigate also the IRQ line as suggestied Len 
Sorensen


In data martedì 08 giugno 2010 22:35:18, angelo ha scritto:
: > Hi all,
> 
> i have a strange issue on the console serial port.
> 
> On a coldfire 5307, uClinux kernel 2.6.X, using the console serial port
> at 115200,N,8,1, bus_clock 45Mhz, sometime a block of bytes (even some
> hundreds) seems lost and not received from the PC-side terminal. But
> when i press a key, the missing block is then received.
> 
> Example:
> 
> # ls
> bin   dev   etc
> 
> (nothing more is received, so i press <enter>)
> 
> # ls
> bin   dev   etc home  lib   mnt   proc  tmp   usr   var
> #
> 
> (after enter missing part arrive).
> 
> Could this issue be related to some kernel misconfiguration ? Or most
> probably another HW issue ?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Angelo
> 

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