2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/image_types_wic.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/image_types_wic.bbclass
index 86f40633eb..1fa016c16e 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/image_types_wic.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/image_types_wic.bbclass
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ WICVARS ?= "\
         INITRD \
         INITRD_LIVE \
         ISODIR \
+        KERNEL_CONSOLE \
         KERNEL_IMAGETYPE \
         MACHINE \
         PSEUDO_IGNORE_PATHS \
diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
index 7554081e8b..85835c4c61 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 QA_LOGFILE = "${TMPDIR}/qa.log"
 
 OEINCLUDELOGS ?= "yes"
-KERNEL_CONSOLE ?= "ttyS0"
+# if SERIAL_CONSOLES is set, take the first device entry.  Otherwise use ttyS0 as the default
+KERNEL_CONSOLE ?= "${@','.join(d.getVar('SERIAL_CONSOLES').split(' ')[0].split(';')[::-1]) or 'ttyS0,115200'}"
 KEEPUIMAGE ??= "yes"
 
 DEFAULT_IMAGE_LINGUAS = "en-us en-gb"