Re: [PATCH] powerpc/lpar - defer prefered console setup

From: Bastian Blank
Date: Wed Jul 30 2008 - 02:23:26 EST


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:34:51PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 20:56 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> * add_preferred_console - add a device to the list of preferred consoles.
> ...
> * The last preferred console added will be used for kernel messages
> * and stdin/out/err for init.
>
> The last console will be added by the console= parsing, and so that will
> be used. The console we add in the pseries setup is only used if nothing
> is specified on the command line.

Okay, then there is a completely different problem. In the case of
"console=hvc0 console=hvc1" it uses the _first_ add stdin/out bla and
ignores the second one completely.

Bastian

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