When using Ski to debug early startup, it's a bit of a pain not to
have printk.
This patch agains 2.6.23-rc? enables the simulated console very early.
It may be worth conditionalising on the command line... but this is
enough for now.
Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
index eaa6a24..a8ada00 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
@@ -394,6 +394,13 @@ early_console_setup (char *cmdline)
if (!early_serial_console_init(cmdline))
earlycons++;
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_HP_SIMSERIAL_CONSOLE
+ {
+ extern struct console hpsim_cons;
+ register_console(&hpsim_cons);
+ earlycons++;
+ }
+#endif
return (earlycons) ? 0 : -1;
}
--
Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au
http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia
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