With regard to patch #1344 in genpatches-base, it appears that a better patch has been devised by David S. Miller to rectify the issue. Please see the URL defined on this bug for the USENET thread discussing the issue. The patch has been adopted into Debian's tree already and I shall attach it here for perusal. Please consider updating genpatches-base accordingly.
Created attachment 59245 [details, diff] Improved patch to fix sunsab serial console quirks Lifted verbatim from debian's 2.6.11-5 patchset.
Also, the original name of the patch is: sunsab-uart-update-timeout.patch
Jeremy does this look ok? Its included in 2.6.12-rc4 (yay!)
yeah, this fixes half of the sab problems, but there is still corruption which is fixed by the patch currently in 12-pre patchset. I'm fine leaving in the current patch in .11 as .12 will be out soon enough...
1344 dropped for 2.6.12 releases