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> FWIW,  I think there is generally some badness in the console code.
> 
> I built my current kernel natively on a serial console,  and the box
> would hang every few files.  After I did make >& /dev/null,  the
> hangs stopped altogether.

  The serial console doesn't get much coverage (you're it :).

  It might be time to migrate it over to the newer uart code.

later,

Peter.