[0/14] Ebony support, 2nd spin

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Feb 21 01:46:07 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 15:16 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 February 2007 15:05, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > Which probably has something to do with the of_serial driver being used
> > now.  Just an FYI.
> 
> If you want to use of_serial together with serial console, you need
> to make sure that the detection logic in arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c
> finds the port. It currently finds the serial port on axon, but that
> requires that the bus it's on is of type "opb" and the device itself
> is listed as "stdout" and has type "serial" and is compatible with
> "ns16750" (note: the others look for "ns16550" here).

The ebony dts has the ports as ns16550.  That is required for the
bootwrapper to find the port to use for it's output at the moment.

josh




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