On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:24:54PM -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
> I went digging in the source. It was 2.4.0-test10 since I had that one handy
> for other reasons, but I figured it wouldn't be _that_ much different. What
> I found in arch/sparc/kernel/setup.c was that you need to specify ttya or ttyb
> instead of ttyS0 or ttyS1 on the console= prompt to get the kernel console to
> use the appropriate serial port. So I went ahead and tried it with the same
> ISO I still have from my previous test, and YES! I now get the kernel probing
> messages.
>
> So there's another one for the documentation, and also for the SILO banner,
> to say to use console=ttya or console=ttyb for serial port console install.
Great news! I'm making the changes to the boot message right now and
adding it to the FAQ.
Do I need to add device nodes for ttya and ttyb to /dev on the root disk?
If it worked for you, I guess it doesn't matter.
> While Sun hardware users will certainly think of serial A or serial B, even
> Intel PC's have a difference between the hardware serial port naming and the
> standard device names used in Linux. So IMHO, the sparc architecture code
> should support that as well. Something to bring up with Dave Miller, I guess.
Perhaps. I think it makes sense to make device naming be the same across
all supported platforms, but that type stuff (device naming) is gradually
approaching holy war (like vi vs. emacs), so I don't think I want to touch
on that. I might bring that up with the kernel developers in the future.
> I just got the 2000-12-07 02:03:33 ISO image on my server that's replicating.
> Hey wait, it's still Dec 6, 22:23. So I guess things are on UTC time there.
> Well, as soon as it's rsync'd down across my dialup, I'll burn that one and
> give it a try, hopefully tonight.
Excellent, let me know what happens. The kernels are still rebuilding at
the moment to enable SysRq support. Should have that synced out by the
time West Wing starts on NBC.
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