On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:43:30AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:38:03 +0100 > > > However, despite people pressing for it, there's yet to be a *sane* > > *technical* *solution* to the problem. All I've seen so far is one > > bad hack. > > Well the "bad hack" we use on sparc gives usable serial ports, > properly ordered and using /dev/ttyS0, with a proper matching > console selection.
Well yes, but it seems to have code in the architecture's early command line parsing to parse the "console=" argument to set this magical "serial_console" variable. Is this an approach you recommend for all architectures? -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
