[LinuxBIOS] COM2 in tyan/s2881

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Wed May 17 11:10:20 CEST 2006


* Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> [060517 00:36]:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 03:09:44PM -0700, Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> > Good.
> > 
> > That will make you boot time longer. Because the com2 only need to set
> > to 19200.
> 
> That is correct. But it will only make the boot time longer when using com2,
> right? Not just when it's enabled. And reducing the verbosity of linuxbios
> and the kernel at startup should remove most of the slowdown...

Right. If the hardware is physically there onboard it should be enabled
per default. 

Stefan.

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