On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 17:31 -0700, Jack F Vogel wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 05:18:47PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote: > > Guys > > I've got a board that has a console on ttyS5. I think that is related > > to the problem. When I run KDB 4.4 on i386 arch, I get the following > > output: > > > > Kernel command line: root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp console=ttyS5,115200n8 > > > > Here's the dmesg: > > kdb: Initialization failed - no console. kdb is disabled. > > kdb version 4.4 by Keith Owens, Scott Lurndal. Copyright SGI, All Rights > > Reserved > > > > Any suggestions for what may be wrong? > > > > regards > > -steve > > What hardware and driver is underlying ttyS5, cuz kdb has > initialization code in drivers/serial/8250.c that populates > a struct based on that driver startup, the symptom you are > seeing means that when kdb runs its init its finding NO > console info initialized. > > Could it be a different driver being used? > > Anyway, just an thought... >
Oh yes, Thanks Jack that is it. It is a custom pci driver that exports a serial interface. I'll see what I can do about hooking into it. regards -steve > Jack > --------------------------- Use http://oss.sgi.com/ecartis to modify your settings or to unsubscribe.
