Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Jul 2002 17:22:03 +0200 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: writing to serial console |
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On Thu, 2002-07-04 10:14:50 -0500, Lee Chin <leechin@mail.com> wrote in message <20020704151450.75171.qmail@mail.com>: > Hi, > I'm trying to write status messages to the serial console as the kernel boots up. I tried writing to ttyS0 in main.c, but the kernel crashes with a paging violation. Is there an easy way to do this?
Simply use printk() and boot up your kernel with "console=ttyS0" or like that. See ./linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt .
MfG, JBG
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