On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 04:33:59PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > 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 ....)
Getting the pc-serial driver to not-load on apple hardware as we used to do doesn't help here, right ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
