From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA2681817 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:09:11 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id LAA6626800 for linux-list; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:07:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA5805775 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:07:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from dirtpan.npiww.com (dirtpan.networkprograms.com [207.113.23.2]) by sgi.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980304.SGI-aspam) via SMTP id LAA17359 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:07:42 -0800 (PST) mail_from (dliu@npiww.com) Received: from mailhub.networkprograms.com [192.9.202.51] by dirtpan.npiww.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA27091; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 14:16:07 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 14:22:46 -0500 Message-Id: <199804021922.OAA09268@pluto.npiww.com> From: Dong Liu To: ralf@uni-koblenz.de Cc: Dong Liu , linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: kernel panic In-Reply-To: <19980402204738.29605@uni-koblenz.de> References: <199804021731.TAA00404@calypso.saturn> <199804021855.NAA08562@pluto.npiww.com> <19980402204738.29605@uni-koblenz.de> Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk ralf@uni-koblenz.de writes: > > Surprise, the support for the serial console does not compile :-) I know, but look at drivers/char/console.c, you don't need CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE to be defined, it will always call rs_cons_hook() if CONFIG_SGI or CONFIG_SUN_SERIAL is set, and in arch/mips/sgi/setup.c serial_console is set if prom_getenv("console") returns "d" or "d2". Maybe it should be changed to be use CONFIG_SUN_SERIAL and implement function serial_console_init(). Dong