On Sunday 15 August 2010, David Miller wrote: > Ok, I think I really got it this time :-) Please add this patch on > top of the existing stuff. > > -------------- > sparc: Really fix "console=" for serial consoles. > > If a video head and keyboard are hooked up, specifying "console=ttyS0" > or similar to use a serial console will not work properly. > > The key issue is that we must register all serial console capable > devices with register_console(), otherwise the command line specified > device won't be found. The sun serial drivers would only register > themselves as console devices if the OpenFirmware specified console > device node matched. To fix this part we now unconditionally get > the serial console register by setting serial_drv->cons always. > > Secondarily we must not add_preferred_console() using the firmware > provided console setting if the user gaven an override on the kernel > command line using "console=" The "primary framebuffer" matching > logic was always triggering o n openfirmware device node match, make > it not when a command line override was given. Works great. Tested on top of previous patch (against 2.6.34; I've not done any kernel testing recently and am thus a bit behind). > Reported-by: Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx> s/-by:/-and-tested-by:/ As always: many thanks David! Cheers, FJP -- 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
