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Message-ID: <61cdc997-61e8-7f30-ba19-35f692a39458@lwfinger.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:58:17 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To: Paul Burton <paul.burton@...tec.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] console: use first console if stdout-path device
doesn't appear
On 10/31/2016 07:14 AM, Paul Burton wrote:
> If a device tree specified a preferred device for kernel console output
> via the stdout-path or linux,stdout-path chosen node properties there's
> no guarantee that it will have specified a device for which we have a
> driver. It may also be the case that we do have a driver but it doesn't
> call of_console_check() to register as a preferred console (eg. offb
> driver as used on powermac systems). In these cases try to ensure that
> we provide some console output by enabling the first usable registered
> console, which we keep track of with the of_fallback_console variable.
>
> Tested in QEMU with a PowerPC pseries_defconfig kernel.
The patch fails to fix my real PowerPC. I still get a kernel panic for an
attempt to kill init. This first test was done with 4.9-rc2. I am in the process
of updating to -rc3 to see if that changes anything. Later today when that build
finishes, I will report those results.
Larry
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