> Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> writes:
>
> > No. Console initialisation is done early, before PCI is setup. This
> > means that the serial driver is relying on a static array of IO port
> > addresses. At this time, the serial driver hasn't probed any ports at
> > all, so it doesn't really know what does and doesn't exist.
>
> Hmm. I hadn't realized it was poking in the dark.
At least some PCI serial cards are just UARTs at a specific I/O address and
interrupt, and the I/O adress and interrupt are (more or less) constant each
boot. Could the values of these be passed to the kernel via command-line?
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