On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 05:44:09PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Lo these many years, the kernel parameter 8250.nr_uarts=9 has > been functioning perfectly to give me access to all 8 ports > on my byterunner board as well as the one uart on the motherboard. > > Now with FC6 (the Xen kernel anyway), I get an error claiming > that is an unrecognized option, and I only see 4 uarts in /dev. > > This sound like something I should report as a kernel bug? > (Or has the syntax just changed out from under me?) Syntax should be the same, and I don't recall this code changing at all recently, so it's likely a xen specific breakage. If you could confirm that by trying the bare-metal kernel that'd help. File a bug against kernel-xen if that's the case. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
