Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:00:16 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. |
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:43:30AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> > Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:38:03 +0100 > > > However, despite people pressing for it, there's yet to be a *sane* > > *technical* *solution* to the problem. All I've seen so far is one > > bad hack. > > Well the "bad hack" we use on sparc gives usable serial ports, > properly ordered and using /dev/ttyS0, with a proper matching > console selection.
Well yes, but it seems to have code in the architecture's early command line parsing to parse the "console=" argument to set this magical "serial_console" variable.
Is this an approach you recommend for all architectures?
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