From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 09 Nov 2010 05:25:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk ([81.2.74.5]:45734 "EHLO h5.dl5rb.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1492143Ab0KIEYP (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2010 05:24:15 +0100 Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by h5.dl5rb.org.uk (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id oA8MwbfE007436; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 22:58:37 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by h5.dl5rb.org.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id oA8MwawG007434; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 22:58:36 GMT Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 22:58:35 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Robert Millan Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] removed ad-hoc cmdline default Message-ID: <20101108225835.GA7167@linux-mips.org> References: <1289133509.1547.1@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1289133509.1547.1@thorin> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 28332 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 01:38:29PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > Loongson builds have an ad-hoc cmdline default of "console=ttyS0,115200 > root=/dev/hda1". These settings come from vendor (I remember builds > from Lemote branch requiring a "console=tty" override in order to get a > working console). > > At least on my Yeeloong, they're particularly useless: there's no > (external) serial port, and the IDE drive is now recognised as /dev/ > sda. > > I recommend removing them. They make sense from a distributor/vendor > POV but otherwise are just a nuissance. Makes sense to me but I'm not an authoritative expert for all Loongson platforms so I'm going to wait for comments for a few days before I'm going to apply this. Generally forcing options like this is just a bad idea. Ralf