Trouble with SMC serial port in ppc/boot/simple on Embedded Planet8248 board

[Laurent Pinchart]

> > I'm trying to port the Linux kernel (2.6.15.1) to the
> > Embedded Planet 8248 board. The board has a proprietary boot
> > loader and uses SMC1 has a serial console.
>
> Do you have SCC1 enabled also?  In arch/ppc/boot/simple/m8260_tty.c you
> will see that if SCC1 is enabled the early text tries to print to it,
> even if SMC1 is selected as the console in the config.  That was about
> the only trick to do to get the early text.

I commented that line to fix the problem, and I was thinking about either a 
configuration option (CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE_SCCx and 
CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE_SMCx) or a macro in the platform-specifix header file 
to override that. Any comment ?

Laurent Pinchart