console on POWER4 not working with 2.6.15

[Olaf Hering]

 On Tue, Dec 20, Olof Johansson wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 09:45:30PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > The connection of ttyS0 to /dev/console doesnt seem to work anymore mit
> > 2.6.15-rc5+6 on a POWER4 p630 in fullsystempartition mode, no HMC
> > connected. It works with 2.6.14.4.
> > I tested 2.6.15-rc6 arch/powerpc/configs/ppc64_defconfig.
> 
> It seems to have been broken a while: According to test.kernel.org (last
> machine in the matrix is an SMP mode p650), it broke between 2.6.14-git2
> and 2.6.14-git3. Console output can be found in:
> 

I remember someone mentioned that a 43p 150 did not boot if the keyboard
is connected. Will try that tomorrow. The git2-3 diff is huge, so maybe
this hint helps.

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