Subject: Re: Linux boot failed on Sandpoint under baudrate 38400

From: "Mark A. Greer" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 15:07:24 -0700

Zhaobin Zhu wrote:

> "Mark A. Greer" wrote:
>
> > What do you mean by garbled?  Do you mean the characters look okay but some
> > seem to be missing or just a bunch of strange characters?
> >
>
>  a bunch of strange characters.

Okay, then its likely a simple baud rate issue.

> > The kernel, the bootloader, and DINK all need to be set up for the same baud
> > rate.  It sounds like you have dink and the bootloader setup for one baud rate
> > and the kernel is probably still at 9600.  Could that be the case?
> >
> > Mark
> >
>
> Yes, I set bootloader(arch/ppc/boot/ns16550.c)  and DINK (sb -k 38400) to 38400.
> So where do I change the baud rate for kernel ?

Take a look in include/asm-ppc/serial.h at the define of BASE_BAUD and it's use in
STD_SERIAL_PORT_DEFNS.

Mark

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