linux/arch
David S. Miller c73fcc846c [SPARC]: Fix serial console device detection.
The current scheme works on static interpretation of text names, which
is wrong.

The output-device setting, for example, must be resolved via an alias
or similar to a full path name to the console device.

Paths also contain an optional set of 'options', which starts with a
colon at the end of the path.  The option area is used to specify
which of two serial ports ('a' or 'b') the path refers to when a
device node drives multiple ports.  'a' is assumed if the option
specification is missing.

This was caught by the UltraSPARC-T1 simulator.  The 'output-device'
property was set to 'ttya' and we didn't pick upon the fact that this
is an OBP alias set to '/virtual-devices/console'.  Instead we saw it
as the first serial console device, instead of the hypervisor console.

The infrastructure is now there to take advantage of this to resolve
the console correctly even in multi-head situations in fbcon too.

Thanks to Greg Onufer for the bug report.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20 16:59:26 -07:00
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alpha some kmalloc/memset ->kzalloc (tree wide) 2007-07-19 10:04:50 -07:00
arm arm: fix up handle_mm_fault changes 2007-07-20 08:50:20 -07:00
arm26 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). 2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
avr32 mm: fault feedback #2 2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
blackfin some kmalloc/memset ->kzalloc (tree wide) 2007-07-19 10:04:50 -07:00
cris Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2007-07-19 14:28:19 -07:00
frv FRV: work around a possible compiler bug 2007-07-19 10:04:50 -07:00
h8300 PTRACE_POKEDATA consolidation 2007-07-17 10:23:03 -07:00
i386 arch/i386/xen/events.c should #include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h> 2007-07-20 08:44:19 -07:00
ia64 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2007-07-20 12:02:20 -07:00
m32r Merge branch 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6 2007-07-19 14:24:57 -07:00
m68k m68k: exclude more unbuildable drivers 2007-07-20 08:24:49 -07:00
m68knommu m68knommu: reformat show_cpuinfo() 2007-07-20 08:44:20 -07:00
mips [MIPS] User stack pointer randomisation 2007-07-20 18:57:40 +01:00
parisc define new percpu interface for shared data 2007-07-19 10:04:44 -07:00
powerpc [CELL] spufs: rework list management and associated locking 2007-07-20 21:42:28 +02:00
ppc Merge branch 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6 2007-07-19 14:24:57 -07:00
s390 s390: Put allocated ELF notes in read-only data segment 2007-07-19 10:04:47 -07:00
sh sh: intc - add support for SH7750 and its variants 2007-07-20 18:44:49 +09:00
sh64 sh64: Flag sh64_get_page() as __init_refok. 2007-07-20 17:46:42 +09:00
sparc [SPARC]: Fix serial console device detection. 2007-07-20 16:59:26 -07:00
sparc64 [SPARC]: Fix serial console device detection. 2007-07-20 16:59:26 -07:00
um fallout from kbuild changes 2007-07-19 18:37:54 -07:00
v850 PTRACE_POKEDATA consolidation 2007-07-17 10:23:03 -07:00
x86_64 Update .gitignore for arch/i386/boot 2007-07-19 14:32:38 -07:00
xtensa Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2007-07-19 14:28:19 -07:00