> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-mips-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:linux-mips-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Ardelean, Andrei > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 2:49 AM > To: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Which Linux driver (source code) is used for tty0 > (console) on MALTA? > > Hi, > > I am using MALTA and my goal is to port MIPS Linux on a new platform. > Which driver (source code) is used for tty0 (console)? I see > the support for "early console" but I think that this is not > the real Linux driver used after boot stage. $ cat arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig | grep SERIAL # CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=4 CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS=4 # CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED is not set CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_SERIAL_JSM is not set Cheers Tiejun > > More general, how to find which code source is used for an > embedded driver (part of the Kernel at compiling time) for > each h/w resource. > MIPS Linux distribution comes with a lot of drivers but I > have difficulties to figure out which one is used for MALTA. > Is it a files where all those are registered? > > Thanks, > Andrei > > >
