On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Ardelean, Andrei <Andrei.Ardelean@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I specified that when the bootloader calls the kernel and I did see that > the baudrate is correct and I have some messages but when the system is > crashing I cannot see printk messages. For instance, I step with JTAG > and I can see that printk(KERNEL_WARNING "unable to open initial > console") is called but on the terminal I cannot see the message. The > same, die() is called but there is no messages on UART terminal. You say you are porting to a new system, perhaps you didn't set up your 8250 platform device. Most boards will have an example for you in the tree. Ricardo