On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 11:15:20AM +0200, Marius Groeger wrote:

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Matt Porter wrote:

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Did you disable CONFIG_VT, if it was enabled?  Otherwise you need to
pass console=ttyS0

and on recent kernels, you need console=ttyS0,9600 on boards like
this that use 9600 baud. Baud rate used to default to 9600, but
no longer.

So what IS the default then? Until today, I thought you don't necessarily
need a console= argument at all. See Documentation/serial-console.txt:

   If no console device is specified, the first device found capable of
   acting as a system console will be used. At this time, the system first
   looks for a VGA card and then for a serial port. So if you don't have a
   VGA card in your system the first serial port will automatically become
   the console.

Are you saying that you should always pass console=...?

Double checking my facts here, it's not CONFIG_VT per-se, but
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE.  The problem is that VT_CONSOLE will register before
anything else, even if no video hardware is found.  Now getting a bit
simplistic, if you don't want VT_CONSOLE, you don't want VT, so...

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