> Hi, all,
>
> I am porting linux 2.4.3 to our mipsel evaluation
> board. Now I meet a problem. Because I use edown
> to download the linux kernel to evaluation board.
> I update the serial baud rate to 115200.
> I use serial 0 as our console, and I can use
> printk to print debug messages on serial port.
> But after kernel call /sbin/init, I can not
> see "INIT ... ..." messages on serial port.
> I suppose perhaps I make some mistakes. But when
> I use 2.2.12 kernel, it ok.
> If someone knows, please help me. Thanks!
It's a bug in init. INIT clears the CREAD flag which means all reads
to the console will be dropped. Why it /sbin/init works before 2.4.3
is a mystery.
Eric
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