Hello All, I just finished porting Linux 2.4.18 to a custom MPC860-based board. Everything works fine except input to the console.
I have setup the console on the SMC1 port. I use PPCBoot as the bootloader. PPCBoot works fine for both console input and output on SMC1. I can see the kernel boot messages, and I can even see the prompt from SASH (but not BASH). However, any typed characters (input) are not seen by the console. Is there a known problem with the 8xx_io/uart.c file in 2.4.18, or has something changed in linux/init/main.c? Just to answer the obvious, I have performed the following: 1. Compiled with CONFIG_CONS_SMC1 and CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE 2. mknod /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64 3. cd /dev, ln -sfn ttyS0 console 4. The linux/init/main.c file seems to open the device "/dev/console" just fine. It also finds the initial application (either SASH or BASH). Thanks, Daris Nevil SNMC -- ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
