Comment 3 for bug 900460

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Mattias Backman (mabac) wrote : Re: [Bug 900460] Re: Console is visible and overwrites on screen ICS UI

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 6:11 AM, vishal <email address hidden> wrote:
> The bootargs being flashed seem to be "console=tty0
> console=ttyO2,115200n8 rootwait ro earlyprintk fixrtc nocompcache
> vram=48M omapfb.vram=0:24M,1:24M mem=456M@0x80000000 mem=512M@0xA0000000
> init=/init androidboot.console=ttyO2"
>
>
> If we remove "console=tty0" we don't see the console logs curropting the framebuffer.  Is there a specific reason for having it in bootargs ?

You're the Android experts so if you don't think it's needed, it's
probably just leftovers from when someone created the Android board
configs. It is explicit on a lot of the boards, is it a problem for
all of them?

>
> ** Also affects: linaro-image-tools
>   Importance: Undecided
>       Status: New
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> Title:
>  Console is visible and overwrites on screen ICS UI
>
> Status in Linaro Android:
>  Confirmed
> Status in Linaro Image Tools:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  On ICS the console is visible on the UI.
>  I've seen this on:
>  https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/staging-panda-11.12-release/#build=2
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