Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device?

[Timur Tabi]

Timur Tabi wrote:
> Can you elaborate on that?  What is the "required method"?  My driver is mostly
> working now, but I have to supply the command-line "console=ttyEHV73" in order
> for the login prompt to show up.  Unfortunately, there's no way for the boot
> loader to know that the primary byte channel for stdout is #73, so I need a way
> for the driver to tell the kernel this.

Never mind .. I got it working.  For some reason, it took a while for me to get
add_preferred_console() working.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

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