Hi, I have noticed that the serial console on my ia64 machine seems to have broken since 2.6.16. Thanks to git bisect I have been able to track this problem down to 111c9bf8c5cfa92363b3719c8956d29368b5b9de [SERIAL] remove 8250_acpi (replaced by 8250_pnp and PNPACPI) With the combination of PNPACPI and 8250_pnp, we no longer need 8250_acpi. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I haven't had time to look into the code and I have to leave my desk shortly, so I thought I would post here to see if anyone has any ideas. I am boot using the following command line: console=tty0 console=uart,io,0x2f8 console=ttyS0 Althogh I'm pretty sure I really only need: console=uart,io,0x2f8 A failed boot looks like this: io scheduler anticipatory registered (default) Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled isa bounce pool size: 16 pages RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17 No ttyS device at I/O port 0x2f8 for console And a successful boot looks like this: io scheduler anticipatory registered (default) Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled acpi_serial_port: zero-length IO port range? serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 44) is a 16550A acpi_serial_port: zero-length IO port range? serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 45) is a 16550A isa bounce pool size: 16 pages RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17 Adding console on ttyS1 at I/O port 0x2f8 (options '115200') prompt # The machine in question is a Trus64-21. Sorry I don't have an English link handy, but if you need me to dig up details please ask. http://www.plathome.co.jp/factory/ser/tru_ita64_21.html -- Horms http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html