Ack! Only 4 uarts with FC6!

[Brian Mury]

On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 17:44 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Lo these many years, the kernel parameter 8250.nr_uarts=9 has
> been functioning perfectly to give me access to all 8 ports
> on my byterunner board as well as the one uart on the motherboard.

I have the same problem here. My motherboard has 2 RS232 ports, and I
have a Lava PCI Quattro which provides another 4 ports. With FC5 I had 6
serial ports in /dev (I didn't use the kernel parameter you mention - it
just automatically worked with all 6 ports). With FC6 I only have 4
ports in /dev.

> Now with FC6 (the Xen kernel anyway), I get an error claiming
> that is an unrecognized option, and I only see 4 uarts in /dev.

I am using the regular non-xen kernel (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6, i686 version).