Re: 2.5.26 broken on headless boxes

James Simmons (jsimmons@transvirtual.com)
Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:07:06 -0700 (PDT)

> I also see similar problems on x86-64 in 2.5.25. The kernel quickly crashes
> when trying to return from opost_write() because something below has zeroed
> out the stack (with serial console and vga console and early console enabled)
> I have not tried it with 2.5.26 yet.

It is the result of registering the console device first for printk and
then later registering the tty device. Eventually I like to be able to
have VT_CONSOLE independent of CONFIG_VT so we could have a light weight
printk. The goal is register tty device once we find a keyboard of some
kind.

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