On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:28:03PM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > Do you enable EARLY_PRINTK? If so, this might be the console-handover > issue. On the handover, "console handover: boot ..." message will be > printed both early console and new console. If they were same device, > drivers might be confused. it will not be printed on both consoles, but while early console is active the real console driver does things to the serial chip, which might confuse the early console driver/prom. > IIRC Maciej have tried to fix this issue a while ago on LKML. this didn't work out for ip22zilog, so I digged through the mess. I solved the problem by setting up the chip in one go. Before there was some chip setup during probing, which killed prom_putchar(). Thomas -- Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]
