On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 07:58 +1100, Stephen N Chivers wrote: > The serial console setup in 'legacy_serial' does not support reg-shift > or reg-offset properties and so a preferred_console is not added by it. > The DTS file for the board does specify the register shift so that > 'of_serial' will correctly setup the UARTS. But that is too late, the > preferred console will be tty0 as the .config derived from > ppc6xx_defconfig > has CONF_VT_CONSOLE set. In the test kernels I have built 'con_init' in > the VT support is always called before serial8250_console_init.
Are you setting console=ttyS0,<baud> on the kernel command line? > I did try modifying legacy_serial to correctly support the tsi-bridge > UARTS and add the preferred console but encountered even more problems > in 8250_core when registering the serial console (to the point of > having a silently panic'ing kernel). > > So I think for the moment, the board will need its own default config. Which config symbol is relevant here? -Scott _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev