Hmmm, that's news to me! I've been using console=ttyS0,115200 console=ttyS0,9600 and console= (no console) forever. > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-mips-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:linux-mips-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ulrich Eckhardt > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 12:51 PM > To: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Bitrotting serial drivers > > > On Sunday 20 March 2005 23:51, Pete Popov wrote: > > It works and no one has complained about any bugs. > > I hereby do complain that it doesn't work. ;) > > I'd give more details, but I'm neither at work nor did I > investigate the > situation properly. What I remember trying is to add > 'console=/dev/ttyS0' or > somesuch to the commandline, but couldn't get it to work > there. The funny > thing is that when I use the GDB support over serial line > (which seems to use > a primitive, stripped-down version of a serial driver) it > works, I can then > redirect boot messages via 'console=gdb'. > > Uli > >