>The standard distribution has a few checks in console >initialisation, which appear a bit superflous to me, and >in fact prevent one from being able to specify conmode= >on non vm or p390 type machines. Removing those checks >will allow one to specify conmode=3270 and condev=1234 >as the kernel commandline such that it can use 3270 device >1234 as its primary console on regular machines.
The first two checks in conmode_setup are fine. The P/390 does not have a hardware console and there aren't any real 3215 devices on machines that are supported by linux, only emulated devices under VM or on a P/390. The third test is something different though. You could use a 3270 device as your primary console but the test prevents it. I will change that and the two sprintf statements in the devfs setup as well. But I won't change the first two tests. blue skies, Martin Linux/390 Design & Development, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH Schönaicherstr. 220, D-71032 Böblingen, Telefon: 49 - (0)7031 - 16-2247 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
