On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 17:31 -0700, Jack F Vogel wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 05:18:47PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
> > Guys
> > I've got a board that has a console on ttyS5. I think that is related
> > to the problem. When I run KDB 4.4 on i386 arch, I get the following
> > output:
> >
> > Kernel command line: root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp console=ttyS5,115200n8
> >
> > Here's the dmesg:
> > kdb: Initialization failed - no console. kdb is disabled.
> > kdb version 4.4 by Keith Owens, Scott Lurndal. Copyright SGI, All Rights
> > Reserved
> >
> > Any suggestions for what may be wrong?
> >
> > regards
> > -steve
>
> What hardware and driver is underlying ttyS5, cuz kdb has
> initialization code in drivers/serial/8250.c that populates
> a struct based on that driver startup, the symptom you are
> seeing means that when kdb runs its init its finding NO
> console info initialized.
>
> Could it be a different driver being used?
>
> Anyway, just an thought...
>
Oh yes, Thanks Jack that is it.
It is a custom pci driver that exports a serial interface. I'll see
what I can do about hooking into it.
regards
-steve
> Jack
>
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