RE: 2.4.8/9 panic on serial with MSI-694D MB

[Tony den Haan]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Laramie Leavitt wrote:

> This appears to be the same crash that I have reported 3 times 
> over the last few weeks.  I have not heard anything, but I suspected
> that it was a console bug because I have 2 video cards and
> the <c0105262> addresses are in vgacon...  I didn't think that
> it might be the serial port.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer.  2.4.9 SMP now boots, and everything
> Seems to work alright.  My new config does not use serial or
> any power management.
> 
> It only appears in SMP mode (I can boot any kernel with maxcpus=1)
> so it is probably a locking problem.  I did notice that mine stopped
> right after printing a notice about ttyS0, but the oops pushed that 
> Off the screen.

if did more checking, problem started with 2.4.7
serial.c did show up in patch-2.4.7 :-)

tony