Hi Geert, On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 01:51:25PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: [..] > If a serial port is used as a console, the port is used for both DMA > (normal use) and PIO (serial console output). The latter can have a > negative impact on the former, aggravating existing bugs, or triggering > more races, even in the hardware. So I think it's better to be more > cautious and keep DMA disabled for the console. Thanks for the extensive and comprehensible replies. No more questions from my end. Looking forward to picking the patches from vanilla/stable trees. -- Best Regards, Eugeniu.