autoconsole

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Jan 14, 2004, at 2:07 AM, Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Tue, Jan 13, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:57:45AM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>>>
>>> Thats a classic "you havent set your console=" problem. SLES has some
>>> magic to look at your console device in OF and make a guess in the
>>> kernel as to where we should talk. We should probably merge the patch
>>> into 2.6.
>> You got it!  When I started this, I expected to get to a point
>> where the boot would fail due to a configuration problem(initrd).
>> However, since I didn't have the console set I didn't see this
>> happening (as I expected).
>>
>> I'll dig the 'AUTOCONSOLE' code out of the SLES kernel and pass it
>> along to see if it may be 'acceptable'.
>
> Please apply it soon, and dont forget ppc32 while your are at it.
[snip]

I haven't had time to check it out yet, but Sparc pushed an
add_preferred_console() to 2.5 a couple weeks ago. See
arch/sparc/kernel/setup.c set_preferred_console() ; it's a bit cleaner
looking than what you've posted here. :)

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


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