Tom Rini <trini at kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > It's not a "dummy" VGA console, it's a "dummy" console. IIRC, this is > selected with CONFIG_VT (or is it CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE?). IIRC, the real > problem is that when you have dummy console, it steals the console even > if you would have had console on some sort of serial port. > > The bottom line is that if you don't have some sort of video device, > just disable CONFIG_VT. >
Thanks. Finally your clue guided me to the problem. All those configs (CONFIG_VT, CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE, CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE, etc) defaults to Y when CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not set. I was working with this option unset (accidentally), so this was the problem. Alex P.S. CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE is selected only if CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE is not set. That's why I had called it "dummy vga console". sorry about the confusion.
