Hi Ricardo, I used Octeon just as a model, I added my own PORT_GD and my own serial_in/out driver functions which work well, I have some messages on the screen. My problem is that I can see messages like "Freeing unused kernel memory..." but I cannot see printk() error/warning/debug messages, like the messages printed by die(). Thanks, Andrei -----Original Message----- From: mendoza.ricardo@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:mendoza.ricardo@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ricardo Mendoza Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 6:58 PM To: Ardelean, Andrei Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: The new "real" console doesn't display printk() messages like "early" console! On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Ardelean, Andrei <Andrei.Ardelean@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Ricardo, > > I implemented serial platform driver taking as model serial.c from > cavium-octeon. > > Here is my code: > > ... Why use the Octeon code which has platform specific bits that might have nothing to do with your platform? Build up from the simple ones. Ricardo