Re: question concerning serial console setup

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 07:56:42PM -0600, Andrew R. Baker wrote:

> > > Unfortunately I am working on an embedded platform, only using this code
> > > as a starting point for our design.  If possible I would like to 
> > > initialize
> > > the console w/o the use of command line parameters.
> > 
> > A simple solution is to hardwire the commmand line in
> > arch/mips/kernel/setup.c.
> 
> I have some hackish code that queries the prom enviroment and edits the
> commandline to reflect the appropriate console.  If that is worthwhile to
> have available I will dig up a diff.

Have you considered hacking kerne/printk.c:console_setup() instead?
There is already some SPARC code there.

  Ralf