[PATCH] console: use first console if stdout-path device doesn't appear

Paul Burton paul.burton at imgtec.com
Mon Oct 31 23:23:21 AEDT 2016


Hi Michael et al,

On Monday, 31 October 2016 16:28:59 GMT Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k.org> writes:
> > Any news?
> 
> We discovered it also breaks VGA on qemu, which presumably is not the
> type of news you were hoping for.

On the contrary, that's wonderful news - I can test that! Huzzah for 
brokenness!

Thanks for your steps to reproduce the issue. Could you try my v2 patch? It 
works for me in QEMU, at least as far as seeing the kernel console output for 
a panic due to not having a rootfs. Hopefully it works for you (& Andreas & 
Larry) too:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9405415/

Thanks,
    Paul
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