2.5 and serial console

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 09:44:10PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Mon, May 05, Tom Rini wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 07:45:44PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > >  On Mon, May 05, Tom Rini wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 06:51:16PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Morning,
> > > > >
> > > > > is there a fix for this? It seems to involve Makefile tweaking, at least.
> > > >
> > > > What .config file?
> > >
> > > It seems CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE is gone. I can not activate it
> > > anywhere.
> >
> > You don't ahve CONFIG_SERIAL_8250 selected either.  But you do have
> > CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE enabled.  So the question is then, (a) why do you
> > have that set (pmac serial console?) and (b) why don't you have
> > CONFIG_SERIAL_8250 set?
>
> I had serial console set. Maybe I screwed my config while hunting for a
> workaround.
> [*] Support for PowerMac serial ports
> [*]   Support for console on serial port

Well that explains it then.  The pmac code is bad and still uses
CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE.  It needs to be changed, at a miniumum to
CONFIG_SERIAL_PMAC_CONSOLE, and the driver really should be ported to
the new serial backend.

> Well, I bet such a zImage links in 2.4.

That's tangental.  But I do need to move the weak symbol code from 2.4
into 2.5 (*sigh*, I thought I did that already).

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Tom Rini
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