Re: [patch] early printk and boot console fixups.

2007-05-17 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Thursday 17 May 2007 03:45:36 am Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > Given the generic name of "uart" I am assuming this will work with any > > > UART driver making use of the serial_core.c core -- am I correct? > > > > I knew somebody would ask that eve

Re: [patch] early printk and boot console fixups.

2007-05-17 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 5/17/07, Maciej W. Rozycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > Given the generic name of "uart" I am assuming this will work with any > > UART driver making use of the serial_core.c core -- am I correct? > > I knew somebody would ask that eventually :-) >

Re: [patch] early printk and boot console fixups.

2007-05-17 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > Given the generic name of "uart" I am assuming this will work with any > > UART driver making use of the serial_core.c core -- am I correct? > > I knew somebody would ask that eventually :-) > > Unfortunately, the answer is "no." "console=uart" on

Re: [patch] early printk and boot console fixups.

2007-05-16 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 11:09:14 am Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > > for early_uart_console, I have some ideas: > > > 1. merged that into early_serial_console in > > > arch/x86_64/kernel/early_printk.c, and > > > move early_printk.c to kernel/, --- make

Re: [patch] early printk and boot console fixups.

2007-05-16 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > for early_uart_console, I have some ideas: > > 1. merged that into early_serial_console in > > arch/x86_64/kernel/early_printk.c, and > > move early_printk.c to kernel/, --- make it understand > > earlyprintk=uart,io,0x3f8,9600n8 > > earlypri

Re: [patch] early printk and boot console fixups.

2007-05-16 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 10:29:11 am Yinghai Lu wrote: > On 5/16/07, Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 May 2007 10:17:50 pm Yinghai Lu wrote: > > > for early_uart_console, I have some ideas: > > > 1. merged that into early_serial_console in > > > arch/x86_64/kernel/early_pr

Re: [patch] early printk and boot console fixups.

2007-05-16 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 5/16/07, Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 10:17:50 pm Yinghai Lu wrote: > for early_uart_console, I have some ideas: > 1. merged that into early_serial_console in > arch/x86_64/kernel/early_printk.c, and > move early_printk.c to kernel/, --- make it understand >

Re: [patch] early printk and boot console fixups.

2007-05-16 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 10:17:50 pm Yinghai Lu wrote: > for early_uart_console, I have some ideas: > 1. merged that into early_serial_console in > arch/x86_64/kernel/early_printk.c, and > move early_printk.c to kernel/, --- make it understand > earlyprintk=uart,io,0x3f8,9600n8 > earlyprint

Re: [patch] early printk and boot console fixups.

2007-05-15 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 2/16/07, Gerd Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The console subsystem already has an idea of a boot console, using the CON_BOOT flag. The implementation has some flaws though. The major problem is that presence of a boot console makes register_console() ignore any other console devices (u

[patch] early printk and boot console fixups.

2007-02-16 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, The console subsystem already has an idea of a boot console, using the CON_BOOT flag. The implementation has some flaws though. The major problem is that presence of a boot console makes register_console() ignore any other console devices (unless explicitly specified on the kernel command