The console subsystem already has an idea of a boot console, using the
CON_BOOT flag. The implementation has some flaws though. The major
problem is that presence of a boot console makes register_console() ignore
any other console devices (unless explicitly specified on the kernel
command line).
This patch fixes the console selection code to *not* consider a boot
console a full-featured one, so the first non-boot console registering will
become the default console instead. This way the unregister call for the
boot console in the register_console() function actually triggers and the
handover from the boot console to the real console device works smoothly.
Added a printk for the handover, so you know which console device the
output goes to when the boot console stops printing messages.
The disable_early_printk() call is obsolete with that patch, explicitly
disabling the early console isn't needed any more as it works automagically
with that patch.
I've walked through the tree, dropped all disable_early_printk() instances
found below arch/ and tagged the consoles with CON_BOOT if needed. The
code is tested on x86, sh (thanks to Paul) and mips (thanks to Ralf).
Changes to last version: Rediffed against -rc3, adapted to mips cleanups by
Ralf, fixed "udbg-immortal" cmd line arg on powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@exsuse.de>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This allows the baud rate for earlyprintk for sh4 without the
standard BIOS to be set via the command line. This uses the same
format as i386 and x86_64, which is:
earlyprintk=serial,ttySC1,38400
The second parameter (ttySC1 above) is usually the console device
name or the io address of the serial port. I allow that to be
specified but ignore it in order to keep the format the same as
i386/x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lenehan <lenehan@twibble.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
This makes the early printk support somewhat more flexible,
moving the port definition to a config option, and making the
port initialization configurable for sh-ipl+g users.
At the same time, this allows us to trivially wire up the
SH7780 SCIF0, so that's thrown in too more or less for free.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Allow multiple early printk consoles via earlyprintk=.
With this change earlyprintk is no longer enabled by default,
it must be specified on the kernel command line. Optionally
with ,keep to prevent unreg by tty_io.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Gerd Hoffmann