Re: Trouble with newer kernels on Gumstix Overo boards

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* Daniel Mack <zonque@xxxxxxxxx> [110617 18:06]:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Gadiyar, Anand <gadiyar@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >> console=ttyS2,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootfstype=ext3 rootwait
> >
> > Here is your problem. We now use the OMAP-serial driver for the UARTs.
> 
> Which breaks backward-compatibility with bootloaders set up for older
> kernels. Now I have to deploy kernels with CONFIG_CMDLINE_FORCE=y. Was
> that really necessary?

In most cases you can just setenv cmdline then saveenv in u-boot.

Who knows, maybe at some point we can make 8250.c behave with runtime PM
and Linux generic DMA API, but that might take a while before we get there :)

Regards,

Tony
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