[parisc-linux-cvs] 2.6.0-test5-pa0 cleanups
Michael Wood
mwood@its.uct.ac.za
Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:58:10 +0200
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:08:44PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 11:07:10PM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:
[snip]
> > drivers/serial/Kconfig
> > CONFIG_PDC_CONSOLE depends on CONFIG_VT in order
> > to pick up console_driver global.
>
> Yes, but I think your patch to the comment is wrong.
>
> > Saying Y here will enable the software based PDC console to be
> > used as the system console. This is useful for machines in
> > - which the hardware based console has not been written yet. The
> > - following steps must be competed to use the PDC console:
> > + which the hardware based console has not been written yet or to
> > + enable console output before regular console device has started.
> > + The following steps must be competed to use the PDC console:
>
> Enabling early console output is not done by CONFIG_PDC_CONSOLE but by
> changing
> #undef EARLY_BOOTUP_DEBUG
> to
> #define EARLY_BOOTUP_DEBUG
> in arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_cons.c (which is alwas compiled in, regardless
> of the setting of CONFIG_PDC_CONSOLE).
And it's "completed", not "competed" :)
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Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>