From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:24:23 +0000 Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc8 won't boot Message-Id: <20101115.112423.232892561.davem@davemloft.net> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org From: Jan Engelhardt Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:18:42 +0100 (CET) > However, I do not see any /dev/ttyHV0. But there is /dev/ttyS0 which, > when I echo something to it, does print stuff on the HV console. So > console=ttyS0 actually made sense. Yes, this is a relic from how the console and serial subsystem do their device naming. I left the serial device name at ttyS* so that there wouldn't need to be special knowledge of this in whatever distribution bits set up and configure serial consoles. In hindsight that might have been a mistake, and perhaps I should have named both things ttyHV* but there's no way I can change it now without breaking more than I would fix.