From: "Julian Calaby" <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:39:08 +1000 > On 8/21/07, Stefan Sablatnög <Stefan.Sablatnoeg@xxxxxx> wrote: > > My questions are: > > - Is there any further trick in using the serial console than to configure > > CONFIG_SERIAL_SUNZILOG=y and > > CONFIG_SERIAL_SUNZILOG_CONSOLE=y ? > > what about CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE vs. CONFIG_SERIAL_SUNCORE have them both > > or only the sun part? > > If the serial console is like the serial console on i386, you have to > set it up (pass a commandline argument to the kernel) before it will > work. > > Also, do you have another console type enabled? e.g. the PROM console > or a framebuffer console? - that may fix your problems. This is not how it works on sparc, the "output-device" firmware variable will be inspected, and if it is set to a serial device it will be used as the console. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
