Re: Console Panic after Kernel comes up - in cons.c ...

[Jochen Kunz <jkunz%unixag-kl.fh-kl.de@localhost>]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:46:30 +0000
netbsd <netbsd%scentech.ch@localhost> wrote:

> porting 2.0 current to a 750 PowerPC HW platform we
> focus the following problems.
> 
> -- actual situation : Kernel comes up but 'panics'
>     saying "panic: cnopen: no console device" ...
> 
>     We have a HW that has a minimal BIOS. i.e. we don't
>     need to initialize any serial port in "com.c". The
>     Only thing we do is filling up the structure:
You have to call comcnattach() and later com_is_console() /
com_attach_subr(). Have a look at sys/arch/hp700/gsc/com_gsc.c or
sys/arch/sparc64/dev/com_ebus.c and the comcnattach() implementation in
sys/dev/ic/com.c.
-- 


tschüß,
       Jochen

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