Trouble with newer kernels on Gumstix Overo boards

[Daniel Mack]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Gadiyar, Anand <gadiyar at ti.com> wrote:
>> console=ttyS2,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootfstype=ext3 rootwait
>
> Here is your problem. We now use the OMAP-serial driver for the UARTs.

Which breaks backward-compatibility with bootloaders set up for older
kernels. Now I have to deploy kernels with CONFIG_CMDLINE_FORCE=y. Was
that really necessary?

> Change the ttyS2 to ttyO2 and you should be fine.

You're right, that did the trick. Thanks a lot!

Daniel