Re: SMC Console not responding

In message [ref] you wrote:

I just finished porting Linux 2.4.18 to a custom MPC860-based board.
Everything works fine except input to the console.

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Just to answer the obvious, I have performed the following:

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3. cd /dev, ln -sfn ttyS0 console

This is your problem. Instead, run:

	mknod /dev/console c 5 1

Wolfgang Denk

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