On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 06:12:22PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> 
> I bet there is a bound check on the value that comes from the
> boot parameters somewhere.

That would make sense -- the bootblocks are naive about the type of
serial port, and a real 8250 will not actually work at 115200bps, as
I recall.

I do run several machines' serial consoles at 57600 and it works.

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  Thor Lancelot Simon	                                     tls@rek.tjls.com

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