[syslinux] extlinux: missing text on serial output

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> 
> It's very well possible that something is broken around the serial
> connection.  There are two extra unknowns in the equation: the DRAC
> III management card tapping the serial line and the Xen hypervisor
> (but the latter is started by mboot.c32, so it can't influence the
> output of that header).  I started work on eliminating each, but
> weekend intervened.  If it's waiting for CTS (indeed I've got serial
> 0x2f8 57600 0x013), what determines the length timeout, after which
> Extlinux sends the data anyway?
> 

There is no such timeout.  It will wait forever.

>> I haven't had a chance to look into it at all, so if you have the
>> opportunity to track things down and send patches, *please* do go
>> ahead (against 3.70-pre14, please.)
> 
> Sure, that's always the case, I just wanted to avoid duplication of
> work.  I expect to be able to investigate this shortly.  In case I
> can't avoid touching the code, I'll work on the Git tree. :) Please
> don't hesitate to share either educated or wild guesses as they strike
> you.

Yeah, the git tree is usually the best.

	-hpa