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From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 1 May 2020 16:16:33 +0300
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On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 2:11 PM Alper Nebi Yasak
<alpernebiyasak@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/05/2020 04:30, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:

> I'm assuming "by default" here means "without console arguments"
> regardless of firmware requests. This paragraph (with small changes) is
> repeated on many other Kconfig descriptions (drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig,
> drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig, arch/sparc/Kconfig from grepping for
> '/dev/tty0' on **/Kconfig).
>
> From Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst:
>
> > You can specify multiple console= options on the kernel command line.
> > [...]
> > Note that you can only define one console per device type (serial, video).
> >
> > If no console device is specified, the first device found capable of
> > acting as a system console will be used. At this time, the system
> > first looks for a VGA card and then for a serial port. So if you don't
> > have a VGA card in your system the first serial port will automatically
> > become the console.
>
> and later on:
>
> > Note that if you boot without a ``console=`` option (or with
> > ``console=/dev/tty0``), ``/dev/console`` is the same as ``/dev/tty0``.
> > In that case everything will still work.

I'm wondering if behaviour is changed if you put console=tty1 instead
of console=tty0.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko