the ratio is about 17.9 The current code selects 17 (5% error) but should select 18 (0.5% error). This 5% error in baud rate leads to garbage on receiving end, while 0.5% doesn't. The issue showed up when using the stock 8250 driver for Synopsys DW UART. This was on a FPGA with ~12MHz UART clock. When we enabled early serial, we saw garbage which was narrowed down to the rounding error. So the bug had been latent and it only showed up with such low clock rates. Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin Acked-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman ¼