Re: Boot failure with kernel 2.6.15 on G4

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

> This message is generally a sign that something else went wrong. Magnus, the
> best way on this would be to file a bug report against initramfs-tools about
> this second problem, and if possible provide the whole log.
> 
> Benjamin, BTW, there seems to be some issue about pmac_zilog and the normal
> serial controller, that if both are builtin the kernel, then the PC serial
> controller will take priority over pmac_zilog, and this second one will not
> work.
> 
> Any hint on how to workaround that ? 

None currently. It's an old issue. The new serial core cannot deal with
2 drivers wanting to share the same major device. The only solution
would be to allocate a new major for pmac_zilog (or steal one that is
only used by a non-ppc arch, doesn't sparc has a separate major for
zilog ? we could re-use that ....)

Ben.