Re: serial console

[Dong Liu <dliu@npiww.com>]

William J. Earl writes:
 > ralf@uni-koblenz.de writes:
 >  > On Thu, Apr 02, 1998 at 03:06:21PM -0500, Dong Liu wrote:
 >  > 
 >  > > Ok, I got a serial cable , connect it, type "nvram console d", now I
 >  > > can boot irix from a serial terminal, but for linux, the message
 >  > > didn't come out, maybe all the serial parameters are not set right.
 >  > 
 >  > Linux doesn't accept the value ``dd'' for the console variable.  If you
 >  > try, Linux should complain about the setting and enter the interactive
 >  > firmware mode again.  Could you try setting console to either d1 or d2
 >  > according to the serial line you're using?
 > 
 >      For reduced user confusion, accepting "console=d" as an alias
 > for "console=d1" might reduce user confusion.
 > 

Yes, but from arch/mips/sgi/setup.c

	ctype = prom_getenv("console");
	serial_console = 0;
	if(*ctype == 'd') {
		if(*(ctype+1)=='2')
			serial_console = 1;
		else
			serial_console = 2;
		if(!serial_console) {
			prom_printf("Weird console env setting %s\n", ctype);
			prom_printf("Press a key to reboot.\n");
			prom_getchar();
			prom_imode();
		}
	}

It got it the wrong serial_console, "d2" means serial port 1, "d"
means serial port 2.

Any way, I think I found out why serial port doesn't work, con_init()
call rs_cons_hook() before rs_init got called. 

But now I got another problem, I got the patch from
ftp://zero.aec.at/pub/sgi-linux, using the same .config file from the
same ftp site, I got

Exception: <vector=UTLB Miss>
Status register: 0x30044803<CU1,CU0,CH,IM7,IM4,IPL=???,MODE=KERNEL,EXL,IE>
Cause register: 0x8008<CE=0,IP8,EXC=RMISS>
Exception PC: 0x880ec7f0, Exception RA: 0x880f0294
exception, bad address: 0x0
Local I/O interrupt register 1: 0x80 <VR/GIO2>
  Saved user regs in hex (&gpda 0xa8740e08, &_regs 0xa8741008):
  arg: 0 8bfffcae 8bfffc24 88107498
  tmp: e 8813e5bc a 8811216c 100000 88100000 0 48
  sve: 88121228 2 8813e570 4 4 1 88121220 9fc47a40
  t8 48 t9 bfbd9833 at 4f v0 1 v1 88107498 k1 bad11bad
  gp 8bf70000 fp 9fc47bac sp 8bfff840 ra 880f0294

PANIC: Unexpected exception

[Press reset or ENTER to restart.]

So I can't compile the kernel my self:=(.

Dong