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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 23:07:45 +0100
From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@...sgaard.com>
To: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
Shreyas Joshi <shreyas.joshi@...mp.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
buildroot@...ybox.net, arcml <linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
shreyasjoshi15@...il.com, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Subject: Re: ARC no console output (was Re: [PATCH 1/2] init/console: Use ttynull as a fallback when there is no console)
>>>>> "Vineet" == Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com> writes:
> On 1/7/21 9:04 AM, Petr Mladek wrote:
>> On Thu 2021-01-07 08:43:16, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>>> Hi John,
>>>
>>> On 1/7/21 1:02 AM, John Ogness wrote:
>>>> Hi Vineet,
>>>>
>>>> On 2021-01-06, Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com> wrote:
>>>>> This breaks ARC booting (no output on console).
>>>>
>>>> Could you provide the kernel boot arguments that you use? This series is
>>>> partly about addressing users that have used boot arguments that are
>>>> technically incorrect (even if had worked). Seeing the boot arguments of
>>>> users that are not experiencing problems may help to reveal some of the
>>>> unusual console usages until now.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kernel command line: earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0xf0005000,115200n8
>>> console=ttyS0,115200n8 debug print-fatal-signals=1
>>
>> This is strange, the problematic patch should use ttynull
>> only as a fallback. It should not be used when a particular console
>> is defined on the command line.
> What happens in my case is console_on_rootfs() doesn't find
> /dev/console and switching to ttynull. /dev is not present because
> devtmpfs doesn't automount for initramfs.
But our initramfs/cpio logic ensures that the initramfs has a static
/dev/console device node, so how can that be?
https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/fs/cpio/cpio.mk#n25
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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