[PATCH] More liberal check for mips-board console

[PATCH] More liberal check for mips-board console

[Thiemo Seufer]

Hello All,

the appended patch allows to override the MALTA/ATLAS/etc. default
console setting with non-serial console devices.


Thiemo


Signed-Off-By: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>

diff --git a/arch/mips/mips-boards/generic/init.c b/arch/mips/mips-boards/generic/init.c
index 1acdf09..88e9c2a 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mips-boards/generic/init.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mips-boards/generic/init.c
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ static void __init console_config(void)
 	char parity = '\0', bits = '\0', flow = '\0';
 	char *s;
 
-	if ((strstr(prom_getcmdline(), "console=ttyS")) == NULL) {
+	if ((strstr(prom_getcmdline(), "console=")) == NULL) {
 		s = prom_getenv("modetty0");
 		if (s) {
 			while (*s >= '0' && *s <= '9')

Re: [PATCH] More liberal check for mips-board console

[Ralf Baechle]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 12:05:06AM +0000, Thiemo Seufer wrote:

> the appended patch allows to override the MALTA/ATLAS/etc. default
> console setting with non-serial console devices.

Okay, applied also.  I take it you've done some more Qemu VGA fixing.  I
hope it means that I can soon delete all the VGA initialization rubbish
in q-vga.c - as it currently exists, it is not mergable.

  Ralf