From: Yegor Yefremov <yegor_sub1@visionsystems.de>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] add support for virtual terminal
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:41:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB8F938.2070205@visionsystems.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lirrc5ys.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk>
> Hi,
>
> >> I'm not sure I like another option for this - Can't you just use the
> >> existing GENERIC_SERIAL and/or the post-build script for this?
>
> Yegor> I'd like to have both serial console and virtual one (on tty I
> Yegor> experiment with my program and vie serial console I can do other
> Yegor> administrative tasks. One could use ssh, but this implies having
> Yegor> network connection). Every time I execute make clean or clone BR
> Yegor> I loose my inittab. Earlier versions of inittab had some ttys
> Yegor> predefined, but they were deleted, so I thought, it would be
> Yegor> useful to add this as an option. This way everyone should be
> Yegor> satisfied.
>
> .. until someone wants a getty on tty2 or tty3 or so on. We need to keep
> serial config, as different boards have differnt serial port names, but
> I would like to keep the configuration options to a minimum, and just
> let people use custom inittab / skeleton or add it with the post-build
> script for special stuff.
O.K. I see your point and will follow Thomas's advice adding tty1 to my custom script.
Yegor
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-08 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-07 11:47 [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] add support for virtual terminal Yegor Yefremov
2011-11-07 22:39 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-11-08 7:49 ` Yegor Yefremov
2011-11-08 9:28 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-11-08 9:35 ` Peter Korsgaard
2011-11-08 9:41 ` Yegor Yefremov [this message]
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