On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 05:11:21AM -0400, William Jhun wrote:
> This patch fixes some problems in selecting which console to use on the
> ip22s.
>
> - Replace unobvious ttyS with arc for the arc console device name
> - If ARC var console=d*, use serial. If 'g', use Newport only. If
> neither or not set, default to ARC. Old code was disabling ARC
> console and using serial console if CONFIG_ARC_CONSOLE was set. (why?!)
> - ArcGetEnvironmentVariable() can conceivably return NULL, so don't
> blindly dereference.
I would rather like to see the whole ARC console stuff die - There will
never be any REAL ARC console usable in userspace - You can only
redirect kernel output there but has always seem to be unstable.
Flo
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