Messages in this thread | | | From | (Danny ter Haar) | Subject | Re: Linux serial console patch | Date | Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:32:27 +0000 (UTC) |
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James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> I have read your posts to lkml containing your serial console flow control >> patches firstly for 2.4.x and then for 2.6.x kernels. > >Does this fix junk being output from the serial console? >If one is using Pentium 4 HT, it seems that both CPU cores try to send >characters to the serial port at the same time, resulting in lost >characters as one CPU over writes the output from the other.
We have multiple P4-HT enabled servers with debian installed & serial console enabled (RPB++ ;-) and _i_ have never seen this behaviour.
Danny
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