According to Matthias Andree:
> I have a vanilla 2.2.18 that I patch Andrea Arcangeli's VM-global-7
> patch (for 2.2.18pre25) on top, as well as I²C 2.5.4, the current
> --12-09 IDE.2.2.18 patch and ReiserFS 3.5.28. So far, so good. If I now
> patch serial 5.05 on top of that, the kernel itself detects devices, but
> does nothing if it's to boot /sbin/init. ctrl-alt-del and Magic SysRq
> are both functional and can reboot the machine.

VA's current kernel includes VM-global and serial-5.05 (and lots of
other stuff :-)).  The only problem we had with serial-5.05 was its
2.2/2.4 compatibility code getting confused because 2.2.18 has more
of 2.4's init macros available.  Try this:

Index: tty_io.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/valinux/kernel/linux/drivers/char/tty_io.c,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.2.12.1
diff -u -2 -p -r1.2 -r1.2.12.1
--- tty_io.c	2000/08/30 21:33:27	1.2
+++ tty_io.c	2000/09/28 08:21:34	1.2.12.1
@@ -2185,7 +2185,4 @@ __initfunc(int tty_init(void))
 	espserial_init();
 #endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL
-	rs_init();
-#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPUTONE
 	ip2_init();

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