Subject: Re: small patch to fix pccons kernel build error
To: Alicia da Conceicao <alicia@cyberstation.ca>
From: None <drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/17/1999 13:49:56
alicia@cyberstation.ca said:
>                  from ../../../../arch/i386/isa/pccons.c:115: ../../../
> ../dev/isa/pckbcvar.h:63: syntax error before `pckbc_slot_t' cc1:
> warnings being treated as errors ../../../../dev/isa/pckbcvar.h:63:
> warning: function declaration isn't
>         a prototype 

As Thilo said, the problem is that you can't have the "pc"
console together with drivers which belong into the "wscons"
framework. "pc" doesn't take part in the ressource management
used by most of the other drivers, so it will step onto
the hardware initialization done before by other drivers
and vice versa. Strange that it didn't crash for you...

In latest -current, I've added some checks which cause
real "#error" bombs if a kernel configuration contains
conflicting console devices.

So simply comment out the
pc0 at isa? port 0x60 irq 1 # pccons generic PC console driver
line in the kernel configuration and everything should be well.

best regards
Matthias