[IA64] Enable early console for Ski simulator

When using Ski to debug early startup, it's a bit of a pain not to
have printk.

This patch enables the simulated console very early.
It may be worth conditionalising on the command line... but this is
enough for now.

Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
index cd9a37a552c3..407efea04bf5 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
@@ -389,6 +389,13 @@ early_console_setup (char *cmdline)
         if (!efi_setup_pcdp_console(cmdline))
                 earlycons++;
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_HP_SIMSERIAL_CONSOLE
+        {
+                extern struct console hpsim_cons;
+                register_console(&hpsim_cons);
+                earlycons++;
+        }
+#endif
 
         return (earlycons) ? 0 : -1;
 }