RE: No ttyS device at I/O port 0xfe004500 for console

Hi Chuck

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Hi Joakim,

Same here -- go into arch/ppc/platforms/83xx and edit file 
mpc83xx_sys.c.
If you are using the 8323e cpu, then you need to make sure

Yes, got one of those.
 

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that file has code to support the 8323E.  Mine didn't, so

I got no

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platform devices initialized (no serial port, no Eth

devs).  I added

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a block of code to support the 8323E (set mask to 

0xffff0000 and 

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"value" to 0x80620000, then the device list for the 

8323E).  Use 

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existing code there as a guide, it was not difficult once

I figured

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out that this was the problem.

hmm, you don't have a patch handy?

Here you go:

Thanks, now it boot into the ramdisk and a get a login prompt 
and all, but I don't see any output during kernel 
startup(only a few garbage chars).
Tried the console params Alex sent but makes no difference. 
How does your cmdline look like?

ahem, I forgot the obvious console=ttyS0. Now it works, thanks a lot

 Jocke