Re:combine macserial.o and serial.o in one binary

[James S. <jsi...@li...>]

Sorry I missed this message.

>That gives me a serial console output on a Pmac and on a IBM machine
>with a PC style serial port. But the IBM machine can not open the
>initial console:
>Warning: unable to open an initial console.
>
>My first thought was to rename the conflicting/duplicate function names
>in macserial.c, I just added a mac_*. But that doesnt work at all.
>
>Any ideas how to get this to work?

    When you get the above message this usually means you don't have a
console device avaliable. Do you have /dev/console avaliable? I have had
this problem when either /dev became corrupt or when I couldn't mount the
root partition which requires /dev to be on it. See right before
/sbin/init is started by the kernel /dev/console is opened directly
inside the kernel. This is because stdin (fd = 0), stdout (fd=1), stderr (fd=3)
are pointed at first to /dev/console.
    I see you serial console enabled. I could be also register_console failed.
I noticed both macserial.c and serial.c define either own struct console. If
you are going to actually use macserial device instead of the standard serial
then you should add a option to use a mac serial console versus the standard
serial console. This looks like it could get a bit more hairy if this is
the case.

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