In message <A3240F62EF3C2749B1A25D3BC9548F4148BC29 at ExchWENZ02.wenz.global.vpn> you wrote: > > I have seen some questions in the archive about people wanting to disable the > serial console but not many answers.
Maybe there ius little to answer? > We have a custom 860T product running a modified 2.4.4 kernel. The console > was disabled by excluding some code in printk.c and this has resulted in > strange effects with the CPM UART driver. Why don't you just pass a "console=null" boot argument? > My questions are > 1. Is there a better way to disable the serial console (or even better, allow > the kernel parameter 'console=' to switch it on of off)? Yes, of course there is. "console=null" is all you need. > 2. If the console port can be changed by the 'console=' parameter, what is > the purpose of the compile time configuration and selection of a console port > in uart.c? To set up a default console when no console=... boot argument is present? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." - Albert Einstein ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
