Marc Karasek wrote: > > All boot monitors (YAMON, PMON, > REDBOOT) initialize the serial port as part of there bootup for use as a > debug monitor, etc. Why should we have to redo something that is > already taken care of. Because we've got completely another policy of handling a device. For example, a boot monitor (good one) must implement polling technique only, Linux uses interrupt-driven technique (well, mostly). In general case, Linux has to reinitialize a device after a boot monitor. It's clear. Regards, Gleb.
