From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Edwards Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:10:04 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] set altix preferred console Message-Id: <20051013131004.GB7542@sgi.com> List-Id: References: <20050930200422.GD13855@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050930200422.GD13855@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 01:55:02PM -0500, Mark Maule wrote: | New version of Greg's original patch per review comments from Bjorn: | | | Fix default VGA console on SN platforms. Since SN firmware does not pass | enough ACPI information to identify VGA cards and the associated legacy IO/MEM | addresses, we rely on the EFI PCDP table. Since the linux pcdp driver is | optional (and overridden if console= directives are used) SN duplicates a | portion of the pcdp scan code to identify if there is a usable console VGA | adapter. | | To avoid also dup'ing PCDP structures, drivers/firmware/pcdp.h is moved to | include/linux/pcdp.h. | | Signed-off-by: Mark Maule Acked-by: Greg Edwards This does fix the problem I was experiencing earlier while booting with console= boot options.