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From: Dong Liu <dliu@npiww.com>
To: ralf@uni-koblenz.de
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Subject: Re: kernel panic
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ralf@uni-koblenz.de writes:
 > On Thu, Apr 02, 1998 at 02:22:46PM -0500, Dong Liu wrote:
 > 
 > > ralf@uni-koblenz.de writes:
 > >  > 
 > >  > Surprise, the support for the serial console does not compile :-)
 > > 
 > > I know, but look at drivers/char/console.c, you don't need
 > > CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE to be defined, it will always call
 > > rs_cons_hook() if CONFIG_SGI or CONFIG_SUN_SERIAL is set, and
 > > in arch/mips/sgi/setup.c serial_console is set if
 > > prom_getenv("console") returns "d" or "d2".
 > > 
 > > Maybe it should be changed to be use CONFIG_SUN_SERIAL and implement 
 > > function serial_console_init().
 > 
 > For shure not CONFIG_STUN_SERIAL :-)
 > 
Sorry, I meant CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE, victim of emacs' dabbrev-expand :=).

Dong