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Re: preliminary test of d-i on the mips board SWARM from Broadcom



Am Sath, 2004-03-20 ag 12:36, scríobh Martin Michlmayr:
> * Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org> [2004-03-20 07:27]:
> > kbd-chooser in d-i _should_  autodetect serial consoles and put this
> > option on the menu. Could you please send me a copy of the install log;
> > it should list  whether serial console was detected or not.

> > /dev/console? /dev/ttyS1? 
> 
> Jan 10 19:58:10 (none) syslog.info klogd: Mounted devfs on /dev
> Jan 10 19:58:10 (none) syslog.info klogd: Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
> Jan 10 19:58:10 (none) syslog.warn klogd: Ignoring TIOCGSERIAL
> Jan 10 19:58:10 (none) syslog.warn klogd: Ignoring TIOCGSERIAL
> Jan 10 19:58:10 (none) daemon.info init: Starting pid 52, console /dev/console: '/bin/sh'
> Jan 10 19:58:10 (none) daemon.info init: Starting pid 54, console /dev/console: '/sbin/debian-installer'
> 
> Oh, I see what's going on.  The UART driver for this board doesn't implement
> TIOCGSERIAL.

Ok,
Checking through the kernel sources, the EINVAL will be returned from
the ioctl(), making kbd-chooser (using the same logic as woody, BTW)
decide that there is no serial console present.

Is a serial console, etc mentioned on the kernel commandline
(/proc/cmdline)? Can we improve the autodetection code that way?


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> Martin Michlmayr
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