serial port screw up

[Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>]

Since I upgraded my system after three weeks of inactivity and rebooted after
that, my serial port (NS16550 type) is screwed up: I get weird characters
instead of the login prompt on my terminal. However, I can login, and
everything I type is echoed correctly. `cat'ing a file to /dev/ttyS0 gives
garbage, too.

It's not a baud problem. Also kernel messages are displayed correctly (using
console=ttyS0). During the first part of the boot up, boot up messages (from
init) are displayed correctly. Suddenly I start getting garbage.

I'll try to find out which of the startup scripts causes the problem. if
someone else already have an idea, I'd be glad to hear...

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium