On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Colin Wood wrote:

> Paul Goyette wrote:
> > 
> > The Mac ROM Glue stuff is disabled if you boot with serial console.  The
> > feeling was that you only needed MRG for the adb access.  You'll also note
> > that you get a strange time when you boot serial console, since we also
> > use mrg code to access the PRAM.
> > 
> > My SLOTMAN kernel makes a lot of new uses of  the mrg code, and I've
> > removed the code that checks for serial console.  I think we ought to
> > enable the nrg stuff all the time.
> 
> Hmmmm...it's still possible that some machines will _hang_ when the MRG
> code gets called.  This would be kind of bad considering that you'll be
> eliminating even the serial console option for these machines.  Keep in
> mind that I don't know of any particular machine where this is a problem,
> but.....

Actually, the reason I made the change (to not disable MRG when botting
from serial console is I need to have serial console access in order to
debug the SLOTMAN code - it was really difficult to read the non-display
when things weren't working!

My changes don't in any way remove the serial console option.  All it does
is make sure that mrg_init() and friends get called regardless of whether
the boot is from serial console or not.

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