From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.dev.rtsoft.ru (unknown [85.21.88.2]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67A086838D for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 01:16:12 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <43429CBA.6050906@ru.mvista.com> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:16:10 +0400 From: Vitaly Bordug MIME-Version: 1.0 To: KokHow.Teh@marconi.com References: <200510041711.34388.david.jander@protonic.nl> In-Reply-To: <200510041711.34388.david.jander@protonic.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: linuxppc-embedded list Subject: Re: serial console List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , > On Tuesday 04 October 2005 08:54, KokHow Teh wrote: > >>Hi; >> I have debian linux running on my PQ2FADS-ZU with devfs and serial >>driver compiled in. I have read Documentation/serial-console.txt and I have >>tried both passing "console=" option as well as without passing that to the >>kernel and both don't give me the expected results. >> When I pass "console=tts/0,115200n8" to the kernel, I don't get any >>console output until the login prompt which I set to 115200 in >>/etc/inittab. When I don't pass "console=" option to the kernel, I get >>console output all the way until "Freeing unused kernel memory:" and the >>console output is garbled and I don't see any login prompt. Here is the >>/dev/* content: > > > I don't know exactly what I am talking about right now, but the string "tts/0" > in the console-line sounds suspicious to me. AFAIK when using devfs still > device names on the kernel-commandline have to be old-style. > Just a guess: try using "console=ttyS0,115200n8" and see if this helps. > Yes, but PQ2FADS use cpm_uart and hence the commandline should be console=ttyCPM0,115200 > Greetings, > -- Sincerely, Vitaly