Re: [LinuxBIOS] patch for EPIA vt8231_early_serial.c

[Ben Hewson]

Ben Hewson wrote:
> The code was enabling interrupts for the serial port, possibly causing
> random hangs on boot.
> I have replaced the 8250 initialisation code with that in uart8250.c
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hewson
>
> Doh !
>
> This seems to work ok for me, but I can't say for sure if it has stopped
> the random boot hangs,
> as they were/are a bit random.

forget the patch. I have removed the uart init code from 
vt8231_early_serial.c and as expected everything still works as before. 
I will redo the patch tomorrow to remove the relevant lines.

on the down side I am still experiencing the odd random hang and power 
off still does not work with ACPI only compiled into the kernel.