Re: HEADS UP: Raspberry PI kernel in armv7 now built from GENERIC

[Nick Hudson <nick.hudson%gmx.co.uk@localhost>]

On 21/07/2019 16:23, Rin Okuyama wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I examined this problem of GENERIC kernel on my RPI2B-1.2 a little
> bit further.
>
> It seems that WSDISPLAY_MULTICONS (enabled in GENERIC, disabled in
> RPI*) does not work on machines that use plcom0 as console.
>
> GENERIC kernel works on RPI2B-1.2 if 'console=fb' is not specified
> in cmdline.txt, or 'console=fb' is specified but WSDISPLAY_MULTICONS
> is disabled. RPI2 kernel also hangs if 'console=fb' is specified and
> WSDISPLAY_MULTICONS is enabled.
>
> Also for RPI0W, RPI kernel hangs if 'console=fb' is specified and
> WSDISPLAY_MULTICONS is enabled.

Thanks for the analysis.

Hopefully this is now fixed with sys/arch/evbarm/dev/plcom.c:1.58

Nick