From: Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 19:53:34 +0200 > On Wednesday 26 May 2010, David Miller wrote: >> From: Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:50:07 +0100 >> >> > Now that I know it's not a huge issue for me personally. It just means >> > I can no longer use my Sparc box for testing use of console= for >> > Debian installations, which is a pity as it's the most suitable box I >> > have for that. >> > >> > I'm not sure how much this is going to throw off other users, but I >> > suspect the majority (except maybe for long time sparc sysadmins) >> > would expect console= to be honored. >> >> Frans, is this patch enough to get the behavior you want? >> >> -------------------- >> sunserial: Don't call add_preferred_console() when console= is >> specified. > > Thanks for the patch David. I've tried to test with it, but for some reason > the box does not boot at all with .34 (both with and without the patch) if > I pass console=ttyS0. If I don't pass the parameter it boots fine. > > Need to investigate (using netconsole or earlier kernels), but that will > take some more time. Frans, I just wanted to let you know that I'm actively trying to debug this now. On my SunBlade100 I can see similar behavior. If I hook up a video head and a keyboard, yet give "console=ttyS0" on the command line it doesn't try to use the serial console for kernel messages. I'll let you know when I have a fix to test. Thanks for your patience. -- 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
