On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Christoffer Dall <cd2436 at columbia.edu> wrote: >> I don't understand why you don't have console. If you did, you could >> use the initcall_debug kernel parameter. > > The uart serial drivers on ARM rely on the tty, bus and driver > subsystems to be initialized, so this can't happen before the > initcalls. However, I got a response from the arm linux mailing list > about a recently committed fix for this, which I might try to apply. Surely there is an "early console" option for ARM, usable for debugging before all those driver layers have been initialized...? -Hollis