On Monday 2010-11-15 16:49, David Miller wrote: > >> 7c1f6afcf98fe95fb3f2b70ce01cf66f6db53b5e is the first bad commit >> Author: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Tue May 25 23:51:17 2010 -0700 >> >> sunserial: Don't call add_preferred_console() when console= is specified. >> >> $ cat /proc/cmdline >> console=ttyS0 >> >> (ttyS0 is in fact the sun4v ttyHV0.) This "turning off earlyprom0" >> at the end of the kernel boot log is worrysome, and seems to be >> the cause for the stop. (I have seen similar when booting a kernel >> to a filesystem that has no /dev/console.) > >Your console device is not ttyS0, it is in fact ttyHV0. The kernel >was overriding your incorrect kernel boot command line specification >before the commit in question, now it's respecting it and that's why >you no longer get your console. However, I do not see any /dev/ttyHV0. But there is /dev/ttyS0 which, when I echo something to it, does print stuff on the HV console. So console=ttyS0 actually made sense. -- 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
