KDB EARLY does not work on 2.6.16

[Keith Owens]

Francois WELLENREITER (on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:12:20 +0100) wrote:
>                      I've noticed that KDB early feature didn't work
>with 2.6.16 kernel version
>on Intel Tiger and Bull NovaScale machines.
>After a brief study, I think that Ihave found the origin of the problem
>and the following patch may correct it.
>
>Could you please consider and integrate this latter on KDB main branch ?
>
>--- linux-2.6.16/drivers/serial/8250_early.c	2006-03-23 17:06:27.000000000 +0100
>+++ linux-2.6.16-kdb/drivers/serial/8250_early.c	2006-03-23 17:04:51.000000000 +0100
>@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@
> 		return -ENODEV;
> 
> 	options = strchr(cmdline, ',') + 1;
>-	if ((err = early_uart_setup(NULL, options)) < 0)
>+	if ((err = early_uart_setup(&early_uart_console, options)) < 0)
> 		return err;
> 	return early_uart_console_init();
> }
>

Added to my tree for kdb v4.4-2.6.16-common-2.  I cannot test this
patch since SGI systems do not have 8250 chips.  Does it cause any
problems for other ia64 users?

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